This section is new! Below appears our first Pro Tip for You.
Pro Tips are intended to help the non-professional photographer get better results from personal photography.
Reduce Flash Quantity for a More Natural Look
If you study your family photos carefully, sooner or later you will notice that many of your images illuminated with flash have too much light on the subject. Sometimes the flash even blows out your people. At the same time, this causes the background to go dark. To make matters worse, when your photo lab or even your photo program on the computer lowers the brightness to improve the overflashing of your subjects, the background goes even darker.
The obvious solution is to lower the flash intensity. …