How Do You Brighten Up Backgrounds In Flash Pictures?
• Find the flash mode control on your camera and set it to FAST. (If you don’t have this mode, don’t panic — there’s another method which we’ll get to in a moment.) FAST tells the camera to treat the scene as a non-flash picture as well as a flash picture, that is, to properly expose the background. Snap your picture and compare it to one using straight flash. Whatever background details there are should now be visible. Want even more control? Set your flash back to “lightning bolt” and your camera to MANUAL. This has the same effect as SLOW flash, but you can now adjust the brightness of the background by changing the shutter speed. Remember, don’t go any faster than your camera’s flash synch speed, or your picture will not be fully illuminated.
