{"id":810,"date":"2012-04-08T20:45:04","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T18:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backgroundexposure.com\/blog\/?p=810"},"modified":"2025-03-08T21:37:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T20:37:48","slug":"the-importance-of-on-camera-flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backgroundexposure.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/the-importance-of-on-camera-flash\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of On-Camera Flash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll ever buy a camera that doesn&#8217;t include a flash on the body itself.\u00a0 It isn&#8217;t that I <em>like<\/em> flash photography; I abhor it, actually.\u00a0 On-camera flash photography makes for uneven lighting, weird color mixes, and generally bad images. However, having a flash built into the body means that I&#8217;ll never be without a fill flash and this is <strong>very<\/strong> important.\u00a0 Any time you&#8217;re photographing something, especially people, on a bright, sunny day, pop up the little thing and let the camera work its magic.\u00a0 It&#8217;s worth it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backgroundexposure.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/31-Camille-Playing-at-Park.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-811 aligncenter\" title=\"Fill-Flash Comparison\" src=\"http:\/\/www.backgroundexposure.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/31-Camille-Playing-at-Park-1024x778.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backgroundexposure.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/31-Camille-Playing-at-Park-1024x778.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.backgroundexposure.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/31-Camille-Playing-at-Park-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.backgroundexposure.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/31-Camille-Playing-at-Park-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.backgroundexposure.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/31-Camille-Playing-at-Park-400x303.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll ever buy a camera that doesn&#8217;t include a flash on the body itself. It isn&#8217;t that I like flash photography; I abhor it, actually. On-camera flash photography makes for uneven lighting, weird color mixes, and generally bad images. However, having a flash built into the body means that I&#8217;ll never be [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backgroundexposure.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backgroundexposure.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backgroundexposure.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backgroundexposure.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backgroundexposure.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.backgroundexposure.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1260,"href":"https:\/\/www.backgroundexposure.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions\/1260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backgroundexposure.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backgroundexposure.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backgroundexposure.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}