Typically, a flash can be too bright and wash out one's subject when used in low-light or night-time settings, ruining what could have been a great image.
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She has a kind of glowing-pebble night-light that changes colors very slowly, and she is lying in this sea of stuff: books and broken Nintendos and inflatable Bratz cushions and God knows what else except, from somewhere deep inside the heap, her breathing.
To increase the keyboard's usability in low-light conditions or at night, auto-adjusting illumination ensures the laser-etched key characters are always bright and easy to read.
Efforts to increase wakefulness in night-shift workers have focused on the use of light at night to suppress melatonin, a sleep-regulating hormone.
On the night of July 9, police stopped Mr. Perez for riding his bicycle without a night-light.
When Woodside, California, mom Dana Sanderson asked her daughter Kit, then 6, what would help her sleep alone, Kit decided she needed a bigger night-light and a "Mommy pillow, " a body pillow with her mom's image traced in fabric paint.
Depending on the capricious whims of the extreme Arctic climate and calendar, thick clouds reveal remote fragments of the landscape as if concealing some great mystery, blinding sunshine illuminates the ice, or perpetual moonlight bathes it all in the strange, blue half-light of the polar night.
"The good news is that people who stay up late in front of the television and computer may be able to undo some of the harmful effects just by going back to a regular light-dark cycle and minimizing their exposure to artificial light at night, " Bedrosian says.
Hopkins will try to prove he's still championship material when he fights undefeated Tavoris Cloud (24-0, 19 KOs) for a piece of the 175-pound light heavyweight title Saturday night at Barclays Center in New York.
The slaves and the freedmen who rode an underground railroad, seeking the light of justice under the cover of night -- they weathered a hard winter.
Finally, we were dazzled by two high-tech garments that harness LEDs to light up the night.
Strange business at this time of night, Nawab thought, the tail-light of the motorcycle casting a reddish glow around them on the ground.
One travel website cites acupressure, melatonin supplements ( like these), and even a bizarre light-enhancing visor as proposed solutions to the dreaded day-night imbalance.
The weapon sound effects are all very crisp, and they had me unglued from my chair as I played long into the night -- no doubt waking all my light-sleeping neighbors.
The light it cast was enough to travel by without using their night-vision goggles.
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When Tina Fey's bright, bouncy, irreverent showbiz send-up aired its last episode Thursday night, a light (Kenneth's toothy grin?) went out in broadcast television.
But it is at night that the mosque glows - its 82 domes light up like dozens of bright light bulbs in the dark sky.
The WBA light-welterweight champion's first title defence will be his first Saturday night headline show but Rees admits he is still an unknown champion.
The ship departed the wind-blasted town of Puerto Natales at first light, with passengers boarding the night before.
Miniature effect to make a scene appear as a miniature model and Night Vision to enable images and video in very low-light by increasing the camera's sensitivity.
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Hopkins scored a 12-round unanimous decision over Tavoris Cloud to claim the IBF light heavyweight championship Saturday night.
Slowing down light may have many practical uses in communications, signal processing, television displays and night-vision devices.
The invitations had gone out, verbally, after many, many late-night Scotches at Elaine's eponymous watering hole, and in the light of day I was a tiny bit nervous about Elaine's acceptance.
With Nokia's award-winning PureView imaging innovation, including optical image stabilization, the Nokia Lumia 928 enables people to capture bright, blur-free photos and videos, even in low light conditions such as indoors or at night.
It was this broad avenue, hung with bobbing white lanterns, alight with girls fluent in yukata (a light kimono) and little boys carrying lit-up white globes, that greeted me my first night in Kyoto, in 1984, on a three-day visit through Japan with my mother, en route to India.
Light and quality of sleep are well-known to be linked, as anyone who has ever pulled a night shift will attest.
But her light bulb moment didn't come until she was driving home from work, tired after an all-night shift in the emergency room.
In addition to T-02D's ISO 25600-equivalent high sensitivity, the phone also comes equipped with a nighttime mode that allows users to take beautiful photos at night while minimizing camera shake and noise, two problems commonly encountered with previous low-light photography technology.
Tellingly, it begins with the image of a sickly, tubercular child, rasping for breath in the night, and then the flare of a light as his older brother reaches for a dime-store paperback, a well-thumbed cowboy yarn he means to read before sleep.
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