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Fun With Your Camera Flash!
By: Gagan Gupta   |   Feb 21, 2008

Digital camera flash may be quite limiting in nature, but that doesn't have to be the case with your imagination. Besides using the flash to illuminate badly-lit areas, you can also have a lot of fun with it. Think about it: it's a powerful source of light; cameras love light; light can so easily be manipulated. I'd bet there's an idea in your head right now!

If not, no worries, we have a few ideas you can use to get some really cool lighting effects with stuff you can find around the house.

Diffuse lighting
Using the flash in general can be a bit harsh on the subject, so what most pro photographers do is use white umbrellas to diffuse the light, making it look softer and a lot more pleasing to the senses.

But its not too hard to get a good diffuse effect from your trusty digital camera flash either. The results may not look as perfect, but it would be better than harsh flash.

What you'll need for this little project is some butter paper and an adhesive that you can use on the camera such as a mild tape, or in our case here, blue tac.

Cut the butter paper to a size which, after folding to half, will still be considerably larger than your camera flash.

Fold the paper into half, and then form an arc over your camera flash with it. Tape it at the upper and lower edges.

The end result should look like the image below. It's perfectly fine to leave the sides of the flash open – it wouldn't interfere with what the camera will capture, and in fact may add a bit of bounce lighting if there are any walls around.

The first image below was what we got with direct camera flash and the second image, by using this diffuse technique.

Before Diffuse
After Diffuse


Pretty neat, eh? Wait till you check out the next effect!

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i dont hav a gud digital camera or so
and hence cant perform these tricks
but i like them and turn my interest over photography.
can u please giv some tricks for cellphone cameras which are 2 mp or 3.2 mp
will be glad to read and try them!
sourynori @ Mar 11, 2008
Good Article, i really liked it as i am photographer by hobby....
Photography is all about lighting & lighting effect. Once we know how to focus an object in specific lighting we can create a different snaps with it...
In future put more information in this regard
Mufazzal Kazi @ Feb 23, 2008
Hehe... harsh, that's not real batman, look closely at the face, looks like an action figure.. and also, the building behind and the angle itself says that this is probably a home window shot...with that torch light to illuminate the batman.. seems real... good job gaagn
Pankaj Gandhi @ Feb 23, 2008
Gagan You have given some good ideas but don't fool people with posting wrong photos, last trick photo is of BatMan and we are sure you have not taken it. Please be genuine if you was not able to get a good picture using this trick then its fine, readers may get it but you don't fool us hope you understand and may accept this.
Harsh @ Feb 22, 2008
Where is the second image for the first page ???
syedcdp @ Feb 22, 2008
How about EYE FLASHING ??? Here'z how you do it
1. Take Person
2. Take camera close to person's eye
3. Without bothering about settings or exposure time, just click
Chetan Thaker @ Feb 22, 2008
Good article.Innovative ways of cpaturing snaps using some common stuff.
Shashikiran @ Feb 22, 2008
nice trics i like these and want more
rajesh @ Feb 22, 2008
Good Article... keep doing that
Abid @ Feb 22, 2008
yes......we would appreciate if u post more stuff like this on regular basis.thnx
Vijit @ Feb 22, 2008
It was really cool
Amandeep @ Feb 21, 2008
Really cool guys!!...look really neat!!
Sphinx @ Feb 21, 2008
NICE
plz do more stuff like this!
LSSNOOB @ Feb 21, 2008
That was preety neat stuff. Would love to try these out. Waiting to see more on cameras
Deepak Krishnan @ Feb 21, 2008
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