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The use of flash on smartphone may seem anecdotal.For many of us, this LED placed on the back of the device is today used essentially a lamp.But in photo, she sometimes has her interest.We explain to you when you have to and when you should not use your flash photo on smartphone.

If you ask a confirmed photographer when you have to use the flash to take a nice photo with your smartphone, it is very likely that it will answer you with a lapidary: "Never".

He will not be wrong because the flashes of smartphones are very limited.Technically, it is only one (or sometimes two) small LED with very reduced power.The scope of a smartphone flash is therefore not far away.Using a flash for a subject placed more than two meters from the device is simply useless.The light projected by the LED of the smartphone will not be able to go so far, or in an ineffective way.

A photo taken in darkness with the flash.The foreground is well lit, even too much lit.But nothing appears in the background.The photo has no interest.

When can we use the flash of your smartphone?

The answer is not easy and the easiest is still to list the moments in which it should not be used.

It's simple, by its scope and limited power, the flash will never make your photos.In general, we advise you to use flash only for very specific situations.Its use is essentially prohibited for practical uses: to take a picture of an object in the dark for example (to put it on sale on a used site for example) or to take a photo of "recall" (an indication,an object that must be remembered) in the dark.

Here is the same photo of Madeleines, but taken without flash with the night mode of the Galaxy S20.The photo is already more successful and much more readable.

He can also be very practical to photograph people during evenings taking place in dark places.The raw light of the flash is then ideal for bringing out emotions on the faces of people partying.

Two flashes are better than one

Finally the best use of the flash of a smartphone to take a photo in the dark, it is when used in the form of a lamp to light the subject.And to do this, we advise you to use the flash of a second smartphone in the form of a lamp toilet to permanently diffuse a light around the subject.

The idea here is to take advantage of the performance of the Night mode of smartphones to highlight an enlightened subject using one (or two, ideally) a flash of a smartphone flash.By positioning the light above or on the side of the subject, it is then possible to give a dramatic or theatrical side to its photo.

To succeed in a beautiful photo with a flash, ultimately, use the flash in the lamp of a second smartphone to illuminate the subject.This mini-projector immediately gives much more cachet to the photo.

With this tip, the flash of a smartphone is really useful.It allows you to take a beautiful photo with a very worked atmosphere.Before even activating the flash in the options of your smartphone, ask instead around you if someone can enlighten the scene with the flash of their own smartphone.It is a simple and accessible light source of access.

Make a little touch -up on the photo lit by a second smartphone and you get a really successful photo.

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