how to take nice photos

Digital Flash Photography - Tip 1
Ok, whatever type of digital camera you have, here’s the first flash photography tip – check what is behind your subject before you press the button. The reason is this – any reflective surfaces will bounce the flash straight back to the camera. You’ll see a big blob of flash on your photos. The usual suspects are mirrors of glass behind your subject. It could also be any other reflective surfaces; polished silver trophies, for example. So to avoid this, make sure you either move your subject, or move the reflective surfaces.


Avoiding Red Eye - Tip 1
The best method of avoiding red eye isn’t something that’s available to users of compact digital cameras – moving the flash away from the lens. You see, part of the problem with flash photography is that the flash and the lens are too close. When the flash fires the light comes straight back into the lens. To avoid this we can move the flash away from the lens. When the flash is moved away from the lens, the light from the flash is reflected back from your subject’s eyes above the lens. This results in no red eye at all.
The only cameras that will allow you to do this are those fitted with a flash ‘hot shoe’. These are almost exclusively found on digital SLRs. If you own a digital SLR – invest in a flashgun that can slot into this hot shoe, and all your devil-eye worries will be forgotten!