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Using LED ring lights (not flash) for macro insects

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Joseph S Wisniewski Forum Pro • Posts: 35,461
Flash speed, not shutter speed
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Antique Eruption wrote:

jim mij wrote:

Antique Eruption wrote:

jim mij wrote:

Like you I was worried about flash and bought a led ring, after a short while I succumbed and bought a flash, macro results have never been better, and flash is very easy to setup

try camera and flash on manual, f8, 1/160, iso 100, take a pic and increase/decrease flash power till your happy

there are lots of you tubes on it, try micael widell

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I'll do that, thanks. One thing I've never grasped with flash is the relatively low shutter speeds. If I'm extended to 1:1, I thought I'd have to increase shutter speed to counteract blur from my own movement. 1/160 sounds slow, particularly for moving crittters (or even static but moving limbs, etc.).

If you're at a low ISO and an aperture of say f/8 or f/11 there's not much exposure from the 1/160 sec of ambient light. The flash duration is much faster, like 1/2,000 sec at 1/4 power. Flashes freeze motion: they're an essential part of high speed photography.

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