How to Diffuse Light in Digital Pictures

Diffusing the light that is produced by your flash can greatly enhance the quality of the digital pictures you take. It gives your pictures a more distributed light source, creating warmer pictures with very little sharp contrast. Here is an on-the-spot improvisation to diffuse light in digital pictures.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• A piece of tissue
• Scissors (optional)
• A small piece of scotch tape

1. Use your scissors to cut out a small piece of tissue. The tissue should be large enough to cover the flash on your camera. If you do not have scissors, you can simply tear it to be a small piece. In the event that you have no tissue available, a thin napkin will also work.

2. Holding the tissue over the flash on your digital camera, use a small piece of scotch tape to secure the top side, leaving the tissue hanging over the front of your flash.

3. Take a digital picture. With the tissue in front of the flash, the light is diffused rather than being cast directly onto your subject, which eliminates a lot of unflattering shadow.

4. Another technique is to cut a strip of tracing paper that is wide enough to cover your flash, but a little longer than needed.

5. Tape one end below the flash bulb, then arch the paper over the bulb before securing the other end to the top of the camera.