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<blockquote data-quote="STM" data-source="post: 737970" data-attributes="member: 12827">There are times when the tide is low at one of my favorite shore bird haunts and it coincides with sun being at my face rather than at my back. I started using a hotshoe mounted flash to fill in the shadows and put a catchlight in the bird's eye but using the &quot;Beast&quot; to photograph birds often means long distances to the subject. The Sunpak flash I use has plenty of power under normal usage where you would use a flash but it just does not have the range in daylight to add adequate fill at distances over 50-75 feet. Enter the MagMod. It is a fresnel lens system that focuses the light and gives up to a 3 stop increase in range. I got a clamp that attaches to one of the 3 1/4x20 sockets on the tripod foot of the Beast and it still gives me plenty of room to mount the lens on the gimble head. [ATTACH]341202[/ATTACH]And the proof is in the pudding, as the saying goes........... a hazy sun day with shadows on this beautiful Tri-Color Heron at about 75 feet. [ATTACH]341203[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="STM, post: 737970, member: 12827"] There are times when the tide is low at one of my favorite shore bird haunts and it coincides with sun being at my face rather than at my back. I started using a hotshoe mounted flash to fill in the shadows and put a catchlight in the bird's eye but using the "Beast" to photograph birds often means long distances to the subject. The Sunpak flash I use has plenty of power under normal usage where you would use a flash but it just does not have the range in daylight to add adequate fill at distances over 50-75 feet. Enter the MagMod. It is a fresnel lens system that focuses the light and gives up to a 3 stop increase in range. I got a clamp that attaches to one of the 3 1/4x20 sockets on the tripod foot of the Beast and it still gives me plenty of room to mount the lens on the gimble head. [ATTACH=CONFIG]341202._xfImport[/ATTACH] And the proof is in the pudding, as the saying goes........... a hazy sun day with shadows on this beautiful Tri-Color Heron at about 75 feet. [ATTACH=CONFIG]341203._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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