Importance of light and flash in photography It is said that any person’s feelings can be read easily on the face. However, that photographer is said to be best who captures those feelings exactly they are in the photograph.
The lighting effects can be achieved by using both light and flash. Both of them thus hold an equal importance.
Importance of light
Light is considered an important part for the photography. The quality of any snap is judged by the light handled.
There is a device called light meter that measures the light. It tells that what amount and how well the light meter can see the light.
Settings are to be done of shutter speed, aperture and film speed. All the settings done and accurate exposure of light leads to a beautiful picture.
Once the method of measurement of light is known, the settings are done in the aperture. An aperture controls the amount of light to be passed through the lens. By adjusting of speed of shutter one can control the light exposure.
The concept is that when the shutter speed is slow it takes much time to close and allow more light to pass through the lens. Fast speed of shutter captures a crisp image by allowing lesser amount of light to pass through.
In case when there is not enough light to shoot, one requires to use a flash or other light supplement. Importance of flash The need of flash arises in the cases when one clicks picture indoors.
There are two main sources of light external flash and in-built flash. The external flash bounces the light from wall, ceiling, floor and similar objects to give an excellent lighting effect to the photograph.
The in-built flash or on camera flash are the best alternative to get the proper exposure in case of dim light.
External flash however gives less red eye-effect than the in-built flashes. The digital cameras have this feature to set the lighting automatically and settings are also asked to be done for indoors, outdoors and night mode.
Flash thus is used as a primary light source in case if light is negligible. In case if shoot is to be taken against the sun then it balances the light automatically.
By understanding the mechanics of the flash one can leave the dynamic impression on the image.
Thus flash is important to give a lighting effect and light is important to give a natural effect to the picture.
In this way both of them, the light and the flash have equal importance in the field of photography
