Fill Flash Trial

garyt

Tried a couple of shots with fill flash for the first time after Brian peaked my curiousity with a few recent lighting posts. I'm not sure I like the grainier background from the higher ISO speeds (these two were run through digital noise reduction), but the lighting is great. The two shots directly below were both at ISO 800, with fill flash (-1.33 and -1.66). The last shot is with my normal flash set-up and ISO.

Fly



Tussock Moth preparing for take-off. It's wings were beating at full throttle.



Moth that came in on the wife's laundry. She was nice enough to call me to get the camera, and after a few shots, it was released unharmed outside.

Lord Vetinari

Lovely shots Gary- good experimenting . Natural light just gives a different style. The male tussock moth needs those lovely anyennae to find the female which is a flightless egg production machine.

Brian V.

Skippy

garyt wrote:

Tried a couple of shots with fill flash for the first time after Brian peaked my curiousity with a few recent lighting posts. I'm not sure I like the grainier background from the higher ISO speeds (these two were run through digital noise reduction), but the lighting is great. The two shots directly below were both at ISO 800, with fill flash (-1.33 and -1.66). The last shot is with my normal flash set-up and ISO.

Fly
Tussock Moth preparing for take-off. It's wings were beating at full throttle.

Moth that came in on the wife's laundry. She was nice enough to call me to get the camera, and after a few shots, it was released unharmed outside.

Hi Gary,

I must confess I have not tried to use high ISO settings to shoot bugs.
I seem to have gone from one extreme to another.

From years of not using a flash at all for bugs, to now using a falsh as if it was manditory

I know Brian uses both Natural and Flash with his shots.

I'm looking forward to the day they invent a camera and lens that captures exactly what you see, in the same light that you see, without any fuss or bother.
ummmmm I hope I am capable of holding a camera at that age

Glad you let the moth go, I dunno about you, but I get a real kick out of rescuing bugs from inside the house and letting them go

Thank you for sharing your experient, I love that last one .. Skippy
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GOLDENORFE

all 3 look great ,lighting works well on all. not bothered about a little noise in background,shouldnt be looking at background anyway !
phil
http://www.flickr.com/photos/goldenorfe/

garyt

Thanks for the encouraging comments Phil, Skippy and Brian. I think I like the results and will experiment a little more with this technique.

DaddyO

Nice set of shots Gary. Michael

DaddyO

Skippy wrote:

Hi Gary,

I must confess I have not tried to use high ISO settings to shoot bugs.
I seem to have gone from one extreme to another.

From years of not using a flash at all for bugs, to now using a falsh as if it was manditory

I know Brian uses both Natural and Flash with his shots.

I'm looking forward to the day they invent a camera and lens that captures exactly what you see, in the same light that you see, without any fuss or bother.
ummmmm I hope I am capable of holding a camera at that age

Glad you let the moth go, I dunno about you, but I get a real kick out of rescuing bugs from inside the house and letting them go

Thank you for sharing your experient, I love that last one .. Skippy
.

I can very much relate to your comments here Skippy. I rarely use flash but I am working towards it. Right now its almost all natural lighting save
for light table work. Also your comment about camera and lens no fuss
hits a certain "can't wait for it either" cord. Michael