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Make the most of available light

How many times have you been in a city and seen snapshooters trying to photograph 'the sights' with their cameras on auto and flashes blinking repeatedly? Total futility; built-in flashes can’t cover much more than a metre or two from the camera. If only they switched off the flash they might get some nice, usable shots. Yet they persist.

This feature will outline the benefits of available light photography and explain why, as photographers, we've never had a more persuasive set of reasons for leaving the flash at home or, at least, disabling the camera's built-in flash. We’ll show that simply shooting with nothing more than whatever light is present when the shutter is released can yield much

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