Using the flash to lighten shadow areas or just to provide more overall illumination in situations where you normally wouldn't use the flash. Outdoors in bright light you get very stark shadows underneath of people's noses, chins and etc. Toggle the flash setting to "forced on" or "fill" and the flash will now fire on every shot. It also gives your human subjects that special little sparkle in their eyes.
The use of a flash to remove (or fill) shadows when there is otherwise enough light to take a picture, especially in strong sunlight.
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The addition of a small amount of flash illumination to fill in unwanted shadows in contrasting lighting situations (e.g. backlight or dark shade on a sunny day).
a low powered flash mixed with ambient light, and is often used to illuminate shadows on the side of a subject facing the camera
a useful tool for all photographers, and having one built onto the camera is extremely handy
A flash feature included on some digital cameras that forces the flash to fire, even in bright light. It can be useful when taking pictures in sunlight, removing unwanted shadows from faces and making objects appear more colourful.
is light provided by a camera-mounted flash to put light into shadow areas and thus reduce lighting contrast.
Force flash. Forcing the flash to fire to fill shadowed areas.
A fill flash is a flash which is not supposed to be the main or primary light in the scene but used to fill in shadows and reduce contrast.
Used to lighten shadows (especially on faces) in high-contrast scenes, such as bright light indoors or when a subject is lit from behind.
Intentionally turning your flash on in order to fill shadows on a bright sunny day, or to override backlighting conditions when shooting indoors when the camera is unable to do so in automatic mode.
Flash that is used in a supplementary manner to fill in a subject's shadow area with light, thereby reducing contrast. Also known as " flash fill" and "fill-in flash."
Flash technique for brightening shadow areas on the subject, typically outdoors on sunny days.
A flash technique used to brighten deep shadow areas, typically outdoors on sunny days. Some digital cameras include a fill flash mode that forces the flash to fire, even in bright light.
This means to use a flash to fill in an object's shadow area with the flash's light. This will in effect reduce the contrast. This method is often used outside and is also known as flash fill and fill-in flash.
Where the flash is used to help balance areas of the exposure or to remove harsh shadows.
The flash mode in which the camera fires the flash for every shot. Fill flash can be used to soften shadows in bright outdoor light.
Fill flash is a photographic technique used to brighten deep shadow areas, typically outdoors on sunny days, though the technique is useful any time the background is significantly brighter than the subject of the photograph. To use fill flash, the aperture and shutter speed are adjusted to correctly expose the background, and the flash is fired to lighten the foreground.