{"id":8500,"date":"2014-02-28T13:28:44","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T18:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8500"},"modified":"2014-02-28T13:28:44","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T18:28:44","slug":"youre-using-your-cameras-flash-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/28\/youre-using-your-cameras-flash-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"You&rsquo;re Using Your Camera&rsquo;s Flash Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/tech\/youre-using-your-camera-flash-wrong-77981393201.html\">David Pogue<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/tech\/youre-using-your-camera-flash-wrong-77981393201.html\"><p>Truth is, you shouldn&rsquo;t use the flash at a performance like that anyway. Not at a sports event, not at a school play, not on Broadway, not at fireworks, not at the Olympics &mdash; because<em> your camera&rsquo;s flash is useless beyond about eight feet.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, yeah, I know. I&rsquo;m telling you to turn <em>off<\/em> the flash when it&rsquo;s dark out, but to turn <em>on<\/em> the flash when it&rsquo;s sunny?<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s called a <em>fill flash.<\/em> Its purpose is to supply a little additional light for the subject to compensate for the overly bright background.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Pogue: Truth is, you shouldn&rsquo;t use the flash at a performance like that anyway. Not at a sports event, not at a school play, not on Broadway, not at fireworks, not at the Olympics &mdash; because your camera&rsquo;s flash is useless beyond about eight feet. [&#8230;] Yeah, yeah, I know. I&rsquo;m telling you to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[153],"class_list":["post-8500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-photography"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}