Kill Your Flash

I turn off my camera’s built-in flash and rarely turn it on. Existing light provides a much more flattering, natural-looking image, with none of the harshness of electronic flash.

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Dimly lit indoor shots may have a slight blur to them, but I’ll take blur over the radioactive look of flash any day.

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