Photographing Kids: Forcing the Flash

Video Transcript

"So we are going to talk a little bit about when you are in a situation when you have a lot of light behind your subject and you don't won't to lose all of the definition of their features or have their face being a lot of shadow. Or in extreme cases, you might really be able to see the background very well but your subject might be an incomplete silhouette. So, most cameras have a feature where you can force the flash. On mine it actually pops up on my camera, but you can see I can compose the picture (say hi Ricky, can you smile for me?) and I force the flash to go off, even though the metering system inside the camera said I didn't need it, I made the flash fire anyway. So then I get a great picture that has no shadows on his face, he looks fantastic and you can still see the background. Some situation where this might be important is say you are on the beach at sunset or if you are in your house and you are shooting something in front of a window, you definitely want to on. So if you don't happen to have a professional camera like this one and you are using a point and shoot, there is very similar features on these cameras as well where you can force the flash to stay on. So even with a small camera like this you can get great photos."