slow-sync

The downside: If there's any movement in the scene, you'll get some motion blur, although you can also get some very cool effects with slow-sync flash.

Tips: Four pointers for shooting great Thanksgiving photos 2010

The downside: If there's any movement in the scene, you'll get some motion blur, although you can also get some very cool effects with slow-sync flash.

Tips: Four pointers for shooting great Thanksgiving photos 2010

If you're shooting a subject with a background that keeps coming out very dark or even black because it's not a well-lit as the foreground, use your camera's slow-sync flash setting.

Tips: How to use your digital camera's flash to get better photos 2009

If you're shooting a subject with a background that keeps coming out very dark or even black because it's not a well-lit as the foreground, use your camera's slow-sync flash setting.

Tips: How to use your digital camera's flash to get better photos 2009

In a night portrait scene mode, it might not just turn on the strobe, but also use a special type of flash, called slow-sync, which will fire a flash and then keep the shutter open in order to expose for ambient light.

Digital cameras made simpler: Auto scene modes 2009

In a night portrait scene mode, it might not just turn on the strobe, but also use a special type of flash, called slow-sync, which will fire a flash and then keep the shutter open in order to expose for ambient light.

Digital cameras made simpler: Auto scene modes 2009

• Try slow-sync flash: On some point-and-shoot cameras, like the S95, this is what exactly what the "night portrait" scene mode does: Uses a longer shutter speed while firing the flash, so you get the benefits of a longer exposure and flash-you can see the foreground and the background, and maybe turn out one of those hipster-y, rave-y photos with wavy lights in the background.

Gizmodo matt buchanan 2010

• Try slow-sync flash: On some point-and-shoot cameras, like the S95, this is what exactly what the "night portrait" scene mode does: Uses a longer shutter speed while firing the flash, so you get the benefits of a longer exposure and flash-you can see the foreground and the background, and maybe turn out one of those hipster-y, rave-y photos with wavy lights in the background.

Gizmodo matt buchanan 2010

This year, I decided to try slow-sync to the tune of a 3 second exposure.

TODAYonline 2010

• Try slow-sync flash: On some point-and-shoot cameras, like the S95, this is what exactly what the "night portrait" scene mode does: Uses a longer shutter speed while firing the flash, so you get the benefits of a longer exposure and flash-you can see the foreground and the background, and maybe turn out one of those hipster-y, rave-y photos with wavy lights in the background.

Gizmodo matt buchanan 2010