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.
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.
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.