Use of the flash in a camera can be perplexing to novice photographers. Many are not aware of the limits to the area its light can reach. This means that up to a certain distance the flash will be useful; beyond that, having the flash on won’t do any good.
Parents taking shots of their children 50 feet from the stage in a dark school auditorium are a case in point. They find out later that they’ve gotten pictures of the heads of the audience in front, with the kids hardly visible in the background.
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