Butterflies and silver reflector

DeVil

A little experiment with silver reflector (50cm)

Backlight is natural and I'm just using silver reflector as a kind of fill light to open the shadows


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2. without reflector







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4. without





5. and with reflector







Field setup look like this


















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CodyBoxer

The reflector does a really nice job. Nice series of shots here!

DeVil

Thanks CodyBoxer

Here's another silver reflector test and video clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9Pkd6xCQRg



no reflector

basflt

that are some nice pic's , Predrag

GOLDENORFE

Very interesting, prefer the middle image of last set, what was the difference between last 2 frames ?

Lord Vetinari

Good demo of the reflector, wonder if using a little fill flash would give similar results ?
Brian v.

leilanimr

Great series. Like your setup, the reflector does good job of bouncing the light back toward the butterflies.

DeVil

Thank you all for comments

Phil, last 2 frames are the same. The only thing I changed is the angle of reflector and like that you get a different light strength.

Brian, I think you're right. Flash would give similar results but (maybe) reflector provides more natural light than flash.

The problem is that the reflector can be used only in the early morning when the temperatures are low. When the insects are warmed up reflector can only scare them away