Using a Flash Indoors

Over the years, you’ve probably seen plenty of indoor flash pictures that have a pitch black background and a washed-out, overexposed foreground. Many factors conspire to produce these stark, unflattering shots, but one of the major contributors is, once again, your camera thinking on its own. You’re letting it decide when to turn on the [...]

People Pictures: How to Really Get Rid of the Dreaded Red Eye

For years now, film and digital camera makers have been inflicting red-eye reduction settings on their customers. Its a series of bright, strobing flashes that’s not only annoying to the people you’re photographing, but doesn’t even work very well.
What causes red eye? In a dimly lit environment, the subject’s pupil expands, revealing more of the [...]