If you sync photos to your iPod with iTunes using the “Include full-resolution photos” option, you can open your iPod in “My computer”, open the photos folder then open the “Full Resolution” folder and drag the photos out of that folder to your computer or copy and paste the folder onto your computer.It’s a way of throwing light into shadows cast by wide brimmed hats, or even by the subjects nose.
The flash on a camera only lights to a 2-3 meter area. Its fine for indoor close up photography, but any further away and you’ll just be wasting batteries (you often see at stadiums the flashes rippling through the crowd, these achieve nothing).
Most modern cameras have a warning or automatic mode, so if in doubt you can fall back onto that. There is also a layer of personal preference, as a flash will also change the colour of a photo, so its worth having a few practice shots with your camera and comparing the colour difference.
If you are shooting outside on a sunny day then the flash is not required.
Google ‘fill in flash’ it can remove or reduce shadows in the harsh contrasty light you get in the Caribbean when shooting portraits. You’ll see Pro’s using flash in the brightest of conditions for just this reason.
Ideally use Manual Mode to mix ambient light and flash for those flash pictures that don’t look as if they are taken with flash at all. Lot’s of practice required.
For normal landscape shots you won’t need flash at all of course.
Chris
It is appropriate when the circumstances dictate it is appropriate.
Obviously in dark conditions when it is required also for fill flash in bright conditions or the like.
yes use flash even outdoors. It will help remove shadows underneath the the face of your subject if that person was wearing a hat.
or just remove unwanted shadows all together. If your shooting people outdoors make sure your not facing them towards the sun or else everyone will make a funny squint face
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