Author: Harry Guinness / Source: How-To Geek
If you’ve taken a photo with a digital camera, you might have seen areas of the photo flash black—like they do in the GIF below—when you review your images.
This black flashing is colloquially referred to as the “blinkies.” The areas that flash black show where the highlights have been clipped or blown; in other words, the parts of your image that are overexposed and have been recorded by the camera as pure white.
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Here’s a proper look at that image above. You can see that the sky is a bright white.
Even though the original image is a RAW file, there’s not much I can do to save it.
So, if you see the blinkies, it means something is off with your exposure.
How to Use the Blinkies to Take Better Photos
The blinkies don’t always show by default, so if you want to use them, you might need to turn them on in the menu.
On Canon cameras, it’s Playback > Highlight Alert. On Nikon cameras, you press Up during photo playback to go into the Highlights view mode. If you’re not sure, consult your camera’s manual and look for something like “Highlight…The post Why Does the Photo on My Camera Flash Black? appeared first on FeedBox.