Here’s a quick video tip on How to Avoid Blown Out Flash Photos - a problem that many digital camera owners have when photographing friends and family at parties or other dark situations.
Read more in our tutorial on this same topic - 7 Strategies for Avoiding Flash Blow Out.
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14 Responses to “How to Avoid Blown Out Flash in Photos”
September 8th, 2007 at 2:26 am
wow. I had A LOT of fun looking at all the OTHER videos that were linked to this one, too!
September 8th, 2007 at 2:50 am
Can you BLEIEVE that chick went to those guys’ house?!?! Man, that was CRAZY.
September 8th, 2007 at 3:08 am
Good to know.
September 8th, 2007 at 3:51 am
i guess it’s a good tip for people using on camera flash, but could you find a more annoying person to host the video?
September 8th, 2007 at 6:14 am
If you can’t get a less annoying person, could you ask her to fix her hair style as not to shake her head every third second?
Thank you.
September 8th, 2007 at 6:21 am
That was so totally lame. Waste of bandwidth downloading. And the idea was completely wrong. Dial down the flash output, not the exposure.
September 8th, 2007 at 6:43 am
I somewhat agree with the previous Andrew, that video wasn’t worth watching. I made it 38 seconds in before succumbing to terminal lameness and closing it.
As for the idea being wrong? I have no idea. I stopped watching.
September 8th, 2007 at 8:29 am
My other lazy way of preventing blow-out is to take a few steps back and zoom in, so you still get what you want in frame and have more distance for the flash to dissipate. This may not work in crowded areas.
September 9th, 2007 at 12:32 am
Here are some home made diffusers for macro shooting that my dad made. Links to his results on his flickr account are included. Make Magazine online liked it enough to link to it.
http://www.georgestarcher.net/Site/CCRRFD.html
September 10th, 2007 at 12:59 am
Hmmm… reduce the EV?
I just reduce the flash output.
September 10th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Damn you people are terribly nasty.
Sandman and Andrew, some people dont have these nice expensive cameras like you do, on most Point and Shoot cameras you cant change the Flash Output.
September 11th, 2007 at 3:01 am
In their defense, you cannot always reduce flash output especially on point-and-shoot compacts. Moreover, there are issues with distance, you have to adjust either the EV or the flash EV to compensate for different over- or indeed under-exposures depending on how far away from the subject you are, at a party there’s not always time to work things out…you have to be fast
db
September 12th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Ok, and here’s another tip for you about flash. If you have an “on camera” flash added on to the top of your camera, take it off TTL and put it on “A” for automatic and see if that helps the “blow out”. It has worked great for me.
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September 12th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Who the hell is this Bob Dale and why is he spamming your blog all over the place with one line comments and five line ads? Spammer!
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