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Never use direct flash. Never use the built in flash on your camera apart from one type of effect called catchlight...see "catchlights". Use an add on flash and at the very least you can bounce it off a wall behind you, the ceiling or even a side wall. Simple, very diffuse and natural. This one tip alone can change make your photography look professional.Watch your sync Due to the design of a DSLR, the shutter and flash synchronisation have limitations which mean that most cameras will only sync up to 1/250, and some are at 1/180. The only time you start to notice this issue is when you are outdoors and having to balance daylight with your flash. So make sure your shutter speed is set below your sync speed.Use available lighting as well. Shooting indoors or out, there is available light which is often nicer and warmer that your flash alone. (By the way we called the flash a strobe, so I'll use this term from now on) The trick to getting this is to reduce your shutter speed. Remember you are using a strobe, which flashes at 1/10000 of a second; so you really don't need to worry .. more »

It seems that Flash design is one of those things that people either love, or love to hate. It's had some bad press due to accessibility and SEO considerations; as well as annoying users when used badly in web design. However if used well it can deliver a powerful message both quickly and efficiently. Immediately communicating to the user the fundamental purpose of a website, whether that is to deliver products, services or information to the user.Poor Use of Flash designI'm sure most of us have experienced tedious Flash introductions that provided users with little more than a search for the 'Skip Intro' button. Who wants to give visitors a pointless waiting room that many will abandon in favour of a competitor's site that allows immediate access to products and information? Who wants to create a barrier to the search engines and put it on their site? Could its relative invisibility in the search engines defeat the purpose of the website in the first place - to reach customers? No wonder so many site owners and businesses are cautious about using flash design.True Flash IntegrationThis track record combined with many misconceptions of flash design is unfortunate and should not be .. more »

The removable flash memory cards used for documenting video shots for camcorders are becoming popular these days. These camera memory cards have superseded older generations of memory cards storing still photographs, as they now document moving videos in larger capacities, replacing video tapes, DVDs and hard drives as storage mediums in a camcorder.The Secure Digital (SD) and its relative version Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) flash cards have been used by camcorder manufacturers with the exception of Sony. Sandisk, for instance, has started selling competitive SD and SDHC cards for use as video cards. But these video cards have different characteristics and features and it is important that you become aware of the differences of these video cards.While the SD memory card only comes in 2 GB capacity, SDHC cards are available in a wide range from 4 GB up to 32 GB capacities. Of course, the higher the capacity the more video footages the card can hold. The SD card is useful for conventional and day-to-day purposes, but if you require a higher resolution camcorder using flash mem. cards, it would be more appropriate to use the SDHC card. There is a manual for beginners to high definition camcorders .. more »