Take a photo of a landscape with a figure in the distance

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The Importance of Background Colors

Learn to control the background in your close-up photos and improve our composition.

The Challenge of Doing Fascinating Close-ups

Learn to set your camera and flash to either include or eliminate the background in your close-up photos.

Fill-flash can make photos look brighter and more detailed. Fill-flash not only fills in dark shadows, but also it shifts the contrast range. The result is a picture in which both darker and lighter areas show more detail.