'Tis the season to be jolly!
The season of lights - from Christmas trees to Hanukkah
candles to decorative house lighting. Lights...lights...lights
to cheer up the long dark nights of winter.
According to the New York Institute of Photography (NYI)
the world's largest photography school, your pictures
can capture the magic of this lighting if you apply just
one simple professional "trick."
For example, how can your pictures capture the
colorful glow of the lights on a Christmas tree?
The "trick", according to NYI, is to turn off your camera's
flash! That's the key: Turn off that handy built-in flash
Otherwise the bright light will overwhelm the subtle tree
lights in your picture.
Similarly, NYI recommends that you turn off your flash
whenever you want to capture any subtle light source - from
Christmas trees to Menorah candles to decorative house
lighting to those wonderful tree outlines produced by
tiny white bulbs.
Of course, certain things follow from this: When you turn
off your flash, you won't have enough light for split-second
exposure. Your automatic camera will compensate by
opening the shutter for a longer time - maybe a second
or longer. Let your camera's built-in meter decide
automatically.
However a very long exposure will become
blurry if either the camera moves or the tree lights move,
or both. To minimize this risk, NYI recommends two
further steps:
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