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If you must use the camera's pop-up flash, there are some useful tips you should remember:
- Set the flash to Rear Sync so you'll pick up some of the ambient light in the room
- 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.
- Reduce the flash's brightness by lower its power. You can also lower your flash exposure, using flash exposure compensation.
- 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
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