From the course: Photography Foundations: Night and Low Light
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Shooting flash portraits at night
From the course: Photography Foundations: Night and Low Light
Shooting flash portraits at night
I said at the beginning of this course that this was not a course on flash shooting or lighting, that we're going to be working with natural light, and that's still true. Nevertheless, flash is one way of dealing with a low-light situation. It's a complicated subject and we're still not going to do a flash course, but there is one simple thing you can do to really improve your flash photos in low light, and I want to show that to you now. The problem with flash is that it has limited range. Anything outside of the range of the flash is going to be darkness. When you shoot with your flash, the camera exposes for the level of illumination that your flash is producing and so anything within that cone of light that the flash makes will be well exposed. Anything outside of it is off limits and dark. Let me show you a practical example of what I mean. I've got Josh over here. I'm going to take his picture. I'm turning my flash on. I'm at ISO 100. I'm in program mode, so I'm just going to…
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