How to use the flash of our smartphone correctly

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How to use the flash of our smartphone correctly

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Surely you thought that having a camera accompanied by a high-end mobile would give you guarantees to hunt the best photos, but no, not only the camera, but the skill of the photographer. To try to give you a series of suggestions that will help you obtain better results, we will show you a small tutorial on how to use the flash of our smartphone correctly .

We must understand from the first moment that the flash is artificial light and can never replace the ambient light offered by our beloved Sun star. Photographers define the flash as a source of artificial and temporary light that helps to achieve the ideal lighting conditions , so that the camera is able to reproduce with the greatest accuracy what we want to photograph.

The flash is that little light that we find right next to the camera and that surely more than one has already given the use of "flashlight" during a night shift. Since the flash is integrated in the body of the device itself, we do not have the possibility of orienting it, so the direction it will illuminate will depend on the orientation of the mobile body .

How to use the flash of our smartphone correctly.

The first thing we have to know is the flash modes offered by our camera application. Generally they offer us three different ways:

• Automatic flash : the application integrates an "intelligent" system that decides whether it is necessary to use flash or not.
• Flash off : keeps the flash always off no matter what the lighting conditions are.
• Flash on : whenever we take a picture, the flash will fire.

The first thing we have to learn is to deactivate the automatic flash mode and activate or deactivate it according to the needs. We should never use the flash to photograph something that is far away and that obviously the flash can not illuminate, for example a landscape.

Other situations in which we should not use the flash are:

• When we take a photograph of an object inside a glass or against a mirror, as it will cause reflections.
• When prohibited, for example in some museums or in zoos.
• When we can get a correct lighting with the lighting of the environment.

The flash is mandatory in the following situations:

• When there is no light source and the photograph comes out completely dark.
• When a shadow appears in the photo that does not allow us to clearly see the photograph.

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