Flash Photography Auto Mode - 3 Ways To Get Better Photos With On Camera Flash in Auto Mode

Flash Photography Auto Mode - 3 Ways To Get Better Photos With On-Camera Flash in Auto Mode. Are you taking photos in Auto Mode on your DSLR and finding that the flash keeps popping up and ruining your photos? You get those washed-out, bland, bluh-looking images? In this video, I’m going to give you 3 ways to solve this problem. The first and most obvious thing you can do is just turn off the flash! Your camera should have an Auto Mode with no flash. Simply find that in your menu, turn it on, and hey-presto?! You’ve stopped the flash from popping up and you will get a much better, more natural-looking image. The second thing you can try involves your box of tissues. Every home generally has some tissues in it somewhere right? If you don’t have tissues, you can use paper towel, or even baking paper for this. Tissues are better because they are more easily manipulated. Grab one, double it over, and wrap it around your flash. Tuck it in at the back here if you can. If you can’t do that then just hold it over the front of the flash with your free hand. Don’t get your hand in the way though - light won’t pass through your hand as it does through the tissue. What this is going to do is soften and diffuse the light. This means that the light will not be so bright or harsh, and it will spread out more across your scene. Another thing we can do to get better photos with our flash photography in Auto Mode is what’s called bouncing the flash. This is where you use a piece of white paper or card to deflect or “bounce” the light from the flash off something else in the room; like the roof or the walls or some other surface. For this technique, all you need is a piece of white paper or card or even a business card. Simply place your paper underneath the flash bulb and direct it towards the thing you are going to bounce the light off. You then click off your shot, and that will give you a much more natural-looking result. It is a little darker than the full flash image but has much more natural colors and shadows.