From the course: Photography Foundations: Night and Low Light

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Flash considerations

Flash considerations

From the course: Photography Foundations: Night and Low Light

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Flash considerations

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I want to show you one very simple mistake that people often make when they're working in low-light situations, and that's they do this. Your pop-up flash is really not what you want to do in this particular situation. This flash is not meant to brighten up a dark area; it's meant to fill in shadows in bright daylight. The problem with the pop-up flash on your camera is that it's right in front of your subject. It's throwing a bunch of light directly into their face, and we're used to having light come from above. It's a whole lot of light. It's coming from the wrong direction. It's not a very pretty color. There are a lot of things that can go wrong when you use the pop-up flash in a low-light situation like this. First of all, people can just look like they've got radiation burns; they've got all this garish light on there. You can use the flash exposure compensation feature of your camera to try and dial it back. But even if you do that, they still look just like they're lit from…

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