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Flash vs Available Light for Insects
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<blockquote data-quote="Clovishound" data-source="post: 833037" data-attributes="member: 50197"><p>Here's one that is not what I usually do. I was out shooting this afternoon when a damsel fly came up. It was a bit skittish, but with care, I could approach close enough. It landed in a place I could get to it and have a decent background, but I had to gradually sneak up on it. There was no way I would be able to get into a position where the sun wasn't shining on it. I went ahead and took some shots. Here is one. It actually turned out better than I thought it would, but I still would have liked to have gotten it in shade for the flash shot. If you notice, it was taken at F/16 at a 1/180 sec, ISO 100. That is just about a full stop below full sun exposure. I'm sure I would have gotten some dark shadows with available light alone, so I went ahead and used flash. </p><p></p><p>I guess the white reflections on the top of the eyes were from my flash diffuser. They look too big to be the sun. OK, I got curious and blew up that section. It looks more to me like the sun peeking over the top of my diffuser. If you look at the nearest eye there is a larger dull white reflection with a multicolored smaller and brighter reflection at the top. That one looks to me like the sun just over the top of the diffuser. That would line up with my position and the position of the sun as well. Unimportant to the shot, I suppose, but interesting to me as I wondered where that odd reflection came from.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]419308[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]419309[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Clovishound, post: 833037, member: 50197"] Here's one that is not what I usually do. I was out shooting this afternoon when a damsel fly came up. It was a bit skittish, but with care, I could approach close enough. It landed in a place I could get to it and have a decent background, but I had to gradually sneak up on it. There was no way I would be able to get into a position where the sun wasn't shining on it. I went ahead and took some shots. Here is one. It actually turned out better than I thought it would, but I still would have liked to have gotten it in shade for the flash shot. If you notice, it was taken at F/16 at a 1/180 sec, ISO 100. That is just about a full stop below full sun exposure. I'm sure I would have gotten some dark shadows with available light alone, so I went ahead and used flash. I guess the white reflections on the top of the eyes were from my flash diffuser. They look too big to be the sun. OK, I got curious and blew up that section. It looks more to me like the sun peeking over the top of my diffuser. If you look at the nearest eye there is a larger dull white reflection with a multicolored smaller and brighter reflection at the top. That one looks to me like the sun just over the top of the diffuser. That would line up with my position and the position of the sun as well. Unimportant to the shot, I suppose, but interesting to me as I wondered where that odd reflection came from. [ATTACH type="full"]419308[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full"]419309[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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