Effect of Using Multiple Flash Units for Photos

The photos listed here were taken with one, two or three flash units. You can see the effects caused by the flash units. The photo with one flash used the built in camera flash. This photo shows very little definition and looks "Flat". The photos taken using multiple flash units used a main flash, a fill flash and for most of the photos a third flash used to put light of different colors on the background and floor around the subject. These photos look almost three dimentional when compared to the photo taken using the camera built in flash.


The flash units, camera and subject were arranged as follows:




Flash Information For Photos Listed Below:

Photo Number	Main Flash	Fill Flash	Background Flash	Comments
3378a	Yes	Yes	No	Main and Fill flash on
3379a	No	Yes	No	Fill flash only
3380a	Yes	No	No	Main flash only
3389a	Yes	Yes	Yes	Red background flash
3393a	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yellow Background Flash
3397a	Yes	Yes	Yes	Blue background flash
3398a	Yes	Yes	Yes	Green background flash
3400a	Yes	Yes	Yes	Background flash with no color filter
3402a	Yes	Yes	No	Main and Fill flash only, just like 3378a
3403a	No	No	No	Camera built in flash only. Flat lighting

These photos show the effect of using Main and Fill flash both together and separately. See table above for details.

3378a        3379a        3380a       



These six photos show the effect of adding background flash of different colors. See table above for details.

3389a        3393a         3397a       
3398a        3400a        3402a       



This photo shows the effect of using only the built in camera flash. Note the "flat" look and loss of three dimentional effect.

3403a       

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