On-location flash: combining ambient light with flash
Wednesday 7 May 2025, 14:07 by Elja Trum | 2,917 views | 0 commentsThis article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.
When you photograph outside in the shade, the light often has no direction. This makes your photo look a bit dull. In this video, photographer Gavin Hoey shows you how to combine the available light with flash to make a photo more interesting.
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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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