Pasvorn Boonmark wrote:
Bruce,
These are nice.
Macro is something that I have not tried. I think it is because of my
fear of using flash. :)
I am always amazed by them.
How do you set-up your fill light, from the back?
Thanks for sharing.
-Pasvorn
Thanks, Pasvorn!
This is my first venture with a P-TTL flash, and my first use of flash
in a few decades. :-) I'm a huge fan of available light, but I knew
that I could only achieve some goals using lighting.
This would be easier with a diagram, but if you imagine that the ring
flash attached to the macro lens looks like the bottom of a wide-brimmed
hat, the tulip blooms were actually part-way into the hat. So not much
light from the flash (which fires forward from around the lens) could
strike the bloom. I just arranged a sheet of white paper to lie behind
the bloom about 4-5 cm's, slightly curved, to reflect the flash back
toward the side of the bloom opposite my lens. In the case where I'm
looking straight down into the top of the tulip, I slit the paper
half-way and cut a round circle so I could fit it around the stem of the
tulip. Everything was just manually positioned, and I held my breath a
lot. :-)
This would likely work better with a proper light modifier, like a small
Lastolite reflector, but I ain't got there yet.
Cheers!
-bmw
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