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glare or highlights on black beetle - poor diffuser ?

Started 5 months ago | Discussions thread
Mike Engles Senior Member • Posts: 2,573
Re: glare or highlights on black beetle - poor diffuser ?

The beetle is very shiny and you have a light acting as a point source. The light reflector/diffuser has to be really large in relation to the object, in essence to act like a overcast sky in daylight.Those diffuser/reflectors that have a hole to let the lens poke through seem to be effective, but I imagine they need a powerful flash as a lot of light might be lost

That is why I suggested test pictures of reflective surfaces, with and without flash

Also in Fred Miranda, the macro forum has a long running page about peoples setups, which is pretty useful. Youtube has many videos about this very subject.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=macro+flash+diffuser

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