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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: Thanks for the idea

I think the 'ring' flash is OK for anything that is not shiny.

My baffles have gone too far as the are acting a little like a ring, with a dark spot in the centre. Very difficult to remove. It looks very good with the tomato, but you can still the the dark spot in the ring. The spot on the left is natural light and the larger diffuse one on the right is my diffuser.

A few more with the darker inner spot. I will have to go back a few steps, to reduce the inner dark patch

Pretty good even light

Pretty good even light

Flash with daylight

Good with some surfaces

Is this plausible?

The bead in the centre, I have reduced the inner spot in Lightroom, but you can see  it with the bead on the left

I suspect I have gone as far as I can with this setup and it should suffice for most uses. My Canon 340EX gives 1/16 power and I use 1/125 to 1/200 at f11 at ISOs 125 to 400 depending on how bright the subject is

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