Learn to use it to make better pictures.
The photograph below used flash in combination with a slow shutter speed to get parts of the photograph to appear sharp and other areas of the photograph to appear blurred from motion.
![Tattooed Hand Strums Guitar. The tattooed hand of a guitarist wearing denim strums a guitar. (Sam D'Amico)](http://www.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000YQtAYYwrcg0/s/590/397/Tattooed-Hand-Strums-Guitar.jpg)
Learn to use it to make better pictures.
The photograph below used flash in combination with a slow shutter speed to get parts of the photograph to appear sharp and other areas of the photograph to appear blurred from motion.