Katherine Michel
Mr. Sandoval
Photography Period 2
2 November 2011
Flash Photography
Flash photography is a type of photography that produces a flash of artificial light at a color temperature. Most cameras now day have a built in flash that is automatic, but some cameras still have a separate flash units. Professionals have separate flash units that they carry around separately in order to have the perfect amount of light. Flash is what allows the camera to see in the dark; it creates light so the subject in the dark is visible. Flash is basically the cameras main source of light when the background light is not sufficient enough. There a different types of flash: direct flash, fill flash, and bounce flash. Direct flash is when the flash is emitted directly at the subject, this occurs for most cameras with a built in flash. Direct flash can reach longer distances than any other form of flash photography. Fill flash is using flash outdoor on a sunny day to improve the quality of your photos, reduce shadows, and improve the brightness and colors of your picture. Bounce flashes are flash units that reflect off the ceiling or reflector in order that results in soft diffused light pictures and no red-eye.
Flash photography is helpful to our types of photography today without flash units pictures would be shadowy and lightless. Flash has come a long way it use to be that flash units would not be attached to a camera and came separately but today we have camera with flash built right in. I use flash all the time when I take pictures in order to enhance my pictures so therefore I don’t know what I would do without flash.
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