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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 822923" data-attributes="member: 53455">All right, foliage being apparently not entirely prohibited from this thread, I will post a couple of photos that illustrate some of the possibilities when shooting closeup or macro outdoors. Because you are creating all the light that will appear in the photo (the shots below were taken in the bright Midday Sun in southwestern France, but the Sun was completely overpowered by the flash), you can make that light as hard or as soft as you wish; as strong or as weak as you wish; and you can choose to isolate your subject from cluttered background much more efficiently than by using bokeh.The light of the flash is by nature very harsh, as the head puts out a lot of watts from a very small emitting surface. Here, that light was softened by using a small Lastolite softbox with two layers of diffusing material. Thus, the light is not far from the warm, natural light of a late afternoon Sun, but a Sun aimed precisely where you wanted it.As an additional benefit, the very short duration of the blitz eliminates all problems caused by the breeze making foliage and flowers move, which is the bane of the macrophotographer. This is the main reason why I began to use flash for closeups and macro outdoors: as our house is built on a hilltop, it does get easily breezy, which is very nice under a heat wave but used to bother me a lot when trying to shoot macros in the garden. With flash, no more worries: under you shoot under a real gale, any breeze-induced swaying will be frozen by the flash and your photo will be sharp.Both photos shot with Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z 50mm, ƒ/1.8 S lens.[ATTACH=full]408968[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]408969[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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