Last night in a feild by work
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Two nights ago I got a little frustrated with my flash… so last night I went out and tried (advice from a fellow dgrinner on one of my posts) bumping up the ISO and using more natural light.
I don’t know how Lord V (and others) gets his lighting so nice.
His tutorials are very helpful… but I am just not getting it my flash work is either to dark or to hot. I am using a Lord V diffuser with a cotton hanky doubled up plus the plastic diffuser that came with my SB400. Last night after dark I used my truck lights to help me find stuff to focus on. Found a very cool fire ant mound lay down next to it with my D200, 105mm @ f16 ISO 400 EV-2/6 with Flash, got bit a bunch of times…. Only to find out when I got home all of the images had multi flash spots on them!
Abstract??? Dark out my LED head lamp lighting these two
Say Cheese
I think (?) this is an immature one of these (see below)
Last one!
I don’t know how Lord V (and others) gets his lighting so nice.
His tutorials are very helpful… but I am just not getting it my flash work is either to dark or to hot. I am using a Lord V diffuser with a cotton hanky doubled up plus the plastic diffuser that came with my SB400. Last night after dark I used my truck lights to help me find stuff to focus on. Found a very cool fire ant mound lay down next to it with my D200, 105mm @ f16 ISO 400 EV-2/6 with Flash, got bit a bunch of times…. Only to find out when I got home all of the images had multi flash spots on them!
Abstract??? Dark out my LED head lamp lighting these two
Say Cheese
I think (?) this is an immature one of these (see below)
Last one!
“I love not man the less, but Nature more.”
— Lord Byron
— Lord Byron
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Try this F11 + ISO 200 + Speed 200 + Flash and try only adjusting the power of the flash just for a test okay.
Set everything to MANUAL to get those setting.
You sure do have mixed results with what your doing,
and I'm not sure why, I can only suggest that if your using AUTO don't.
You got pretty good light on the second shot.
First one looks like the flash didn't fire???
I hope you can figure out the settings that work for you,
I know how frustrating it can be, when I first starting shooting MACRO
I couldn't use a flash, had no clue.
Don't give up
.
Skippy (Australia) - Moderator of "HOLY MACRO" and "OTHER COOL SHOTS"
ALBUM http://ozzieskip.smugmug.com/
:skippy Everyone has the right to be stupid, but some people just abuse the privilege :dgrin
Great advice, if its not raining in the morning I will give it a try. Also I think I am going to buy a roll of paper towels. I am using a cotton hanky folded over twice, I think it is not defusing the light properly.
Hey I have not seen any new images from you in a while. Every OK? MM
— Lord Byron
I got lucky with with the amount of detail showing considering how under exposed it is. MM
— Lord Byron
Try the settings Skippy mentioned.
I just use a sheet of kitchen paper towel for my diffusers and nothing else on the front of the coke can things. Are you using some sort of conical device on the front of the flash so that the diffuser area is faily large and at least and inch or two on front of the face of the flash ?
Diffusers won't get rid of hot spots but they should make them less hot.
Brian V.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/
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Brian, this is the set up I am using. the diffuser is corrugated white plastic covered with black tape. Sometimes I will add the little plastic diffuser that came with my flash. Here is a picture of the rig and a picture of the "hot spots" I and getting some times. Does it matters that my diffuser is not round? MM
All of these ants have the "hot spots" on them. MM
— Lord Byron