Flash photography tip: Combining light is easier indoors

Saturday 18 April 2026, 14:28 by Elja Trum | 1,341 views | 0 comments

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

When you start combining flash light with ambient light, you’ll find that it can sometimes be quite tricky. Especially when you’re photographing outdoors during the day. There is often far too much light, and you have to make extra effort to get the photo you have in mind.

Danien - f/3.2, 1/100s, 100 ISO @ 45mm
You can make things much easier for yourself by starting to combine ambient light and flash light indoors. There is genuinely much less light indoors than outdoors. This means you won’t quickly reach the limits of your equipment and you’ll have much more flexibility with your settings.

So don’t make it too difficult for yourself, and take your first steps in combining ambient light and flash light indoors.

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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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