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4 tricks to improve pop-up flash performance

If you must use the camera's pop-up flash, there are some useful tips you should remember:

  1. Set the flash to Rear Sync so you'll pick up some of the ambient light in the room
  2. Soften the harshness of the pop up flash by shooting the flash through a white table napkin or cutting a rectangle-shaped diffuser out of the side of a plastic gallon of milk and shooting through that.
  3. Reduce the flash's brightness by lower its power. You can also lower your flash exposure, using flash exposure compensation.
  4. tape a small yellow gel, like a 1/4-cut CTO gel over your flash and leaving it there all the time. This gives the cold flash a much warmer, more pleasing look.

If you are on tight budget to invest a dedicated flash, rely on your pop-up flash, then you can consider LumiQuest's Soft Screen. It is designed to fit over your pop-up flash to spread and diffuse the light. it's very cheap investment to improve the quality of the light.

Techniques of using cameras flashes