Monkey's Magical Treehouse of Awesomeness

[Lemon Cheesecake]

Have you tried bouncing the flash and not using it direct?

[MonkeyGirl18]

Well, that's what my teacher says to do. If you use flash, have it bounce off of something, but you have to buy an extra piece and it's used on a more professional camera.

[galled]

You can use a pice of cardboard with some white paper taped to it. I've used aluminum foil too (dull side and shiney side will give different looks).

[MonkeyGirl18]

Or just a plain piece of paper.

[Lemon Cheesecake]

do you have a red eye flash on your camera? that can help cut the glare too and can bounce off white/light backgrounds

[MonkeyGirl18]

It's not that that is the problem. It's the flash itself. It just makes the quality of the picture go down.

[Lemon Cheesecake]

I agree, I like natural light best.You can bounce the natural light too.

[galled]

No doubt. If you can harness existing light or manipulate light to fit your desired outcome, that's always best. However, I still stand by the flash for newbies because having something in focus and lit enough to make out what the subject is, is preferable to something unusable even if it's a bit flat and/or overexposed a bit. <--My humble opinion.

[MonkeyGirl18]

If you're a newbie or just take pics for fun, that's one thing, but as a newbie, you need to learn the mechanics if you want to be professional. Honestly, once they learn what's what, they can figure it out.

Basically, the ISO is the light sensitivity, aperture is how open the lens is, and shutter speed, well, is how long it takes to take the picture.

The more open the aperture, the longer the shutter, and the more sensitive the iso gets, the more light is in the picture. The more closed the aperture, the short the shutter, and the less sensitive to light the iso gets, the darker the picture. Once you understand that, you pretty much can accomplish anything.

I took a picture of my room once with flash and the picture was still pretty dark and bad looking. I then took another pic without flash and adjusted the setting, you can make out the objects and it looked better. It's actually pretty easy once you get the hang of it.

[MonkeyGirl18]

DANG IT DANG IT DANG IT!

//throws phone

You useless piece of crap! I set the alarm on you this time! Why didn't you go off?!

[murmurlade]

don't bully your phone :9 are you late?
maybe try one of those annoying buzzer alarms next time lol-- smash them and they won't shut up

speaking of alarms though, we have a creepy penguin alarm that has really awful wails as the sound.. when we set it up, we usually wake up before it so we can turn it off. its traumatizing to wake up to that horror...

oh hey im a newb at camera stuff! teach meeee!
i got a dslr as a present once but im crap at using it

[MonkeyGirl18]

I can bully my phone if I want to. It didn't wake me up this morning and missed the whole class.

I'm not very good at teaching it since I'm still learning how to use cameras properly too, xD lol

[Fiel-kun]

Lols Monkey, your phone is weird...

*lurks in the shadow*

[galled]

I know people who use their computers for alarm clocks. Might be worth trying for a backup.

[murmurlade]

@_monkey lmao.. oh well, ill wait for you to get pro, then you can teach me :3c

@_fiel //tugs you out of the shadows
why you lurkinnn