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5 today, back with the ringflash...

Paul IddonPaul Iddon Registered Users Posts: 5,129 Major grins
edited May 6, 2015 in Holy Macro
Getting frustrated with the twin flash head unit and it's long flexible arms in the garden - when you're chasing things in bushes and branches etc, the arms are quite a hindrance, so I put the ring flash back on, and it's so much easier.

So we have a fly, a dronefly, a busy bee in the apple blossom, and an aphid family outing (one little 'un was brown amongst all those green ones oddly... and one was getting a piggy back ride!)


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Paul.


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    StumblebumStumblebum Registered Users Posts: 8,480 Major grins
    edited May 4, 2015
    Ring flash with home-made diffuser?
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    Paul IddonPaul Iddon Registered Users Posts: 5,129 Major grins
    edited May 4, 2015
    Stumblebum wrote: »
    Ring flash with home-made diffuser?


    Yes indeed :)

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    Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins
    edited May 5, 2015
    Lovely captures Paul - esp like the first aphid shot
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    Paul IddonPaul Iddon Registered Users Posts: 5,129 Major grins
    edited May 5, 2015
    Thanks Brian.


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    e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,378 Major grins
    edited May 5, 2015
    Paul,

    Your ring flash results are excellent.

    I have just modified my twin flash setup.

    Essentially, the addition is a selection of adapters with tripod mounts and a straight flash bar. I put my fill flash on that bar and attach the bar to the tripod mount. Moving the adapter forward (some DIY mods to mount) in the setup gets the fill flash clear of my right hand.

    The main flash remains on a ball mount on top of the arm of my L-bracket, the head angled downwards and inwards.

    I still prefer to completely detach the fill flash from the camera when practicable. (It has a plastic foot into which it slides and the tripod thread on that attaches it to the flash bar).

    Both guns are controlled RC and TTL by as small, pop-up, RC control flash on the hot shoe, its light turned off.

    I am posting this for general consumption.

    Harold
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    Tom FosterTom Foster Registered Users Posts: 289 Major grins
    edited May 5, 2015
    Damn, more excellent shots. Really need to get myself a ring flash...!
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    Paul IddonPaul Iddon Registered Users Posts: 5,129 Major grins
    edited May 5, 2015
    Cheers for the info Harold. :)

    Cheers Tom :)

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    IPClarkIPClark Registered Users Posts: 2,355 Major grins
    edited May 5, 2015
    Very nice mate. Gotta love the really tiny one getting a piggy back :D
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    Paul IddonPaul Iddon Registered Users Posts: 5,129 Major grins
    edited May 6, 2015
    IPClark wrote: »
    Very nice mate. Gotta love the really tiny one getting a piggy back :D

    Thank you Ian thumb.gif

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