Photo Tip 4 - Use Flash During the Day

We usually think of turning our camera's flash on when it's dark, but using your flash during the day can vastly improve your photos.

Have you ever taken a photo of people on a bright sunny day and found everything looked great in the picture except for your subjects' faces which were very dark?  The trouble is, if you chose the correct exposure for your subjects' faces, the rest of the photo would be too light.

The easy solution is to turn your camera's flash on. This is sometimes called using 'fill-in flash' or 'forcing the flash'. The symbol for this setting on a camera often looks like a little bolt of lightning.

The photo on the left has no flash and the faces are too dark. The photo on the right has been taken using the fill-in or flash-on setting so the faces aren't in shadow.

Use fill-in flash during the day