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Fill Flash for Outdoors. Why? It looks bad.


I think on-camera fill flash doesn\'t look good, yet I see so many professional photos which use it. Even Gary Phong Puffers and Lightspheres won\'t make your on camera flash any good. All I see is flat lighting and harsh chin-shadowing.

Why don\'t people ever just add +1 or +2 to their exposure compensation instead? It\'s less work and looks better. Examples:

Here\'s a simple into the sun shot using +1.5 exposure compensation. Fill flash would have made a very different picture.







Here\'s +0.7 compensation shooting into the sun again.






Now, I\'m not against using flash outdoors. In fact I believe the best photos use a combination of natural and supplemented flash. But this mounted-on-camera fill flash thing has got to die!

Anyone agree or disagree with me?



Mar 07, 2012 at 05:15 PM





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