A man's story

today just read web board from 2how.com link

learnt that when u taking pictures with babies up to few years old child (not really sure up to what age have to do more research on it) as it could damage the eyes .. and bounce flash is not exception either.

well agree flash is design to give light power approximatly to the morning sun. i never thought about taking pictures children with flash .. and i did quite number of occations alredy..

to solve the problem:
1) bring the kids outside where there is enough sun light.
2) if using digital camera try to use higer iso (400/800/1600/3200). dont have to worry about noise in the pictures. i think the eyes are more important than the picturs.
3) use lager apperture .. (F-stop) Av mode find smallest number eg. 2.8 or 4.0
4) film camera can use higher iso film .. 400 and push film technique ..
use any one or many of the combinations could save the eyes of the kids ..

why push film/ increase ISO?
because it is very hard to hold a camera still below speed of 1/60 sec. or TV 60. as the light is very low that's the reason we use flash. offcourse there are other reasons to use flash ..but i wont talk about it here.

if u have a tripod than it's cool. just mount the camera to the tripod and shoot. but some time if the child is move and the iso is below 1/30sec or below 1/15 sec u will see a blur figure of the child that's why u need higher iso to help.