Flash can make the colors seem all wrong, or light up the wrong things, or make everything harsher. Like, here are some scilla down the street, taken with flash:
Here's the same shot, without flash:
Isn't that awesome???Here's The BookShelf, the Seabury bookstore where I work a couple days a week, with flash:
The BookShelf, au naturel:
I suppose it could be called overexposed, but it looks warmer and more real to me. Often, taken a photo without flash means that you risk being blurry. Like this:
But I guess I feel the light plays more of a role in the photo - like it's one of the subjects, instead of being manipulated by the flash. Mostly, I just like the colors better in a photo without flash.There's probably some lesson about life here, but I think it might be too cheesey to unpack. So, I will leave it at face value.
Two more to illustrate how stark it can be:
With flash.
No flash.
(the refectory, after an event in January called Boar's Head) I couldn't believe that, in the first shot, you couldn't see a thing! But in the second, the electric lights light up the whole room, just fine.
ah heidi... you always have that cheesemeter turned on!
ReplyDeletei had fun experimenting with flash/no flash in Germany this summer.
you make me wish i took pictures more often... we did, after all just get a lovely new camera for christmas.
ReplyDeletePhotography is all about light: where it is, where it's not, how you bend it. It's not people/things you're photographing, but the light that reflects off them. Happy exploring.
ReplyDeletetagged you for a "six weird things about me" meme... it's the second post down on my blog at the moment.
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