Why are studio flash lights so blinding?
Put simply, having more light produces better photos. It’s quite feasible to take photos without flash lights. People do it all the time – on mobile phones, outdoors and even with video cameras (video cameras simply take 50 photos every second and play them back in rapid succession). However, mobile phones and video cameras produce photos in an entirely different league to studio portraits. They tend to only perform reasonabley when used outdoors – where sunlight is many times brighter than the light produced by our modest halogen or fluorescent lights. Indoors,they use a combination of high gain and long exposure to compensate for low light. High gain digitally “amplifies” the digital signal being recieved from the camera’s sensor. In doing so, it also amplifies the sensor’s imperfections (or “noise floor”), resulting in a noisey or “grainy” look. Long exposures increase brightness by exposing the sensor for more time. This is a great method for still subjects, but if the subject OR c
