Flash photography tip: Combine lamps with your flash

Thursday 18 April 2024, 20:02 by Elja Trum | 2,591 views | 0 comments

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

You can make a photo more interesting by adding lamplight to it as well. This is often ideal for the background of your image. A logical place to combine lamplight with flash is when photographing indoors, although you can of course do this in a studio too.

Janna - f/4, 1/125s, 100 ISO at 50mm
When you add lamplight, you need to make sure that the lamp is not too bright, as attention will then be drawn to the lamp, and not too weak, as the lamp will then not stand out. The easiest way to find this balance is by adjusting the shutter speed. After all, this has no effect on your flash light.

Is it difficult to balance the light properly using only the shutter speed? Then you can of course also adjust your flash power and other camera settings. Also remember that many lamps can be dimmed, giving you even more options for creating a good combination of the different light sources, flash, lamp and often the available ambient light.

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Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.

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