DPReview.com is closing April 10th - Find out more

Butterfly and Dragonfly

Started Jul 27, 2019 | Discussions thread
OP ANAYV Forum Pro • Posts: 23,926
Re: Butterfly and Dragonfly

saaber1 wrote:

Looking good. The two butterfly ones (some others also possibly) u may want to try adding in-camera flash (if it has) or handheld flash in optical slave mode along with internal flash. That may add lots of detail even at a low fill flash level. Personally I don't like the look where the flash is supplying 100% of the light (aperture/shutter/iso speed set to eliminate any ambient light) because I think it looks too artificial on insects/hummingbirds, etc. but fill flash can add a lot of detail (just personal preference, someone else might like that very detailed but artificial look).

I do recognize though that different people have different opinions on whether a flash can damage the insects eyes and I don't know enough about it to say it does or doesn't I only say that photographically it may help.

Thanks for the comments.

Funny you mention flash.

I actually did take a few with flash. Didnt come out as detailed. Could be me, as I hardly use flash...but did use it for one of the Butterflues in this post.

Will try and post it here, after work.

ANAYV

Post (hide subjects) Posted by
Jim
Keyboard shortcuts:
FForum PPrevious NNext WNext unread UUpvote SSubscribe RReply QQuote BBookmark MMy threads
Color scheme? Blue / Yellow