I don’t understand how using a flash can freeze motion better than ambient light. In the end, isn’t it all just light hitting the sensor?
I don’t understand why it would do this. I mean it’s not necessarily like the camera knows and is like “Oh they’re using flash, I’ll be nice and give them a sharper picture’. I mean obviously they don’t think like that, but all in all it’s light luminating the subject and hitting the sensor, why does something like the source of the light affect how much motion can appear in your image?
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The less light there is, the more time a camera needs to get the picture (this is called shutter speed). The longer a camera takes to catch a picture, the more things move, which can cause motion blur.
A flash is an intense amount of light, which means the camera needs less time to get the photo and there is much less chance for things to move. The “freezing” is a lack of motion blur.
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