Flash photography tip: Make your flash more powerful by moving it closer
Thursday 4 January 2024, 16:08 by Elja Trum | 2,421 views | 0 commentsThis article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.
Especially on a sunny day, your flash is probably not powerful enough to take the photo you want. The inverse square law, however, provides a simple way to make your flash more powerful.
You can simply place your flash closer to your subject. Halving the distance quadruples the power of your flash. If you halve the distance again, you quadruple the power of your flash once more.
You can use this knowledge to make better use of your flash in more situations. In principle, it is therefore smart to place your flash as close to your subject as possible. You then have the maximum amount of flash light available.
About the author
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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