Flash Photograqphy Research Paper

Michelle Lee

Sandoval

Photography 1 Period 2

2 November 2011

Flash Photography

            First of all, a flash is the device that is used to produce a flash of artificial light to help illuminate the scene in photography. Usually the main purpose to use flash in photography is to brighten the dark scenes but sometimes they could be used to capture fast moving objects or to change the quality of light. Flash photography is the use of a camera flash bulb in a variety of possible situation where there doesn’t seem to be enough light. When taking photos indoor, typical situations would probably be getting not enough lights to take a normal hand-held well-exposed photo. In that case, the solution would be throwing light into a room for an architectural photo or casting light on certain objects in a lighted room that appears too dark for an exposure. One of the other types of flash is fill flash. Fill flash fills in the areas of a photo that would normally have not enough lights or is too dark. It can be used for sunny day portraits for shadows on a subject’s face or to fill any shaded area that is out of the sunlight. It can also be used to boost light into a room where there’s no source of light from the windows. Other than the fill flash, there are many different types of flash, such as red-eye reduction mode, slow sync flash, rear sync flash, stroboscopic flash, and etc.