Flash is an essential tool when taking portraits under low light conditions or at night. Without flash, the shutter speed would too long to effectively freeze the subject, thus producing blurry images.
I am sure that you will have noticed that when using pop-up flash for portraits at night, the background gets very dark and produces unattractive pictures, with little ambient(background) light. You will have difficulties working out where the photographs are taken due to the dark background.
The main reason is because when you pop-up the flash, the shutter speed of the camera gets too fast to capture the lights emitted from the background. As such, the background will not be recorded by the sensor of the camera and therefore appears to be too dark.
At Steve & Sarah Mills Wedding Photography in Nottingham, we can let you know an easy way to overcome this situation where the subject and background are beautifully captured in portrait shoots.
Set your camera to Manual mode with aperture between F5 to F9 and shutter speed at 1/30 second. As flash is being used, you do not need a high ISO rating. An ISO of 400 will do the trick. Focus on your subjects and starts shooting to produce results like a professional!
With shutter speed of 1/30 seconds, the light from the background will be recorded by the camera sensor. Blurry images caused by camera shake due to long shutter speed are usually not an issue here as the flash will freeze the subject.
Alternatively, you can set the flash option to "Slow Sync Flash" which can also produce similar results.
Now that you have learnt the technique to shoot portraits like a professional at night, grab and camera and start shooting now! Keep watching for more useful photograhy tips from Nottingham Wedding Photographers Steve & Sarah Mills Wedding Photography.
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