Some Butterflies (PICS)

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pvrnet said:

Decided to shot something a bit different today and decided to
stalk a couple of butterflies visiting the garden. May be the last
shots I post for a couple of weeks as I am off on holidays to
Northwestern Ontario (Rainy River specifically).

300D, Sigma 105mm f2.8ex macro lens, Canon 420ex speedlight with
lumiquest soft-box.











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gpichler said:

i'm getting my tamron 90 macro soon. i see that most of the macro
photos are shot with flash and the lumiquest soft-box.
since i have the sigma 500 dg super: does the stofen omnibounce
give the same effect as the soft-box does?

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gpichler said:

i'm getting my tamron 90 macro soon. i see that most of the macro
photos are shot with flash and the lumiquest soft-box.
since i have the sigma 500 dg super: does the stofen omnibounce
give the same effect as the soft-box does?

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Eneref said:

gpichler said:

i'm getting my tamron 90 macro soon. i see that most of the macro
photos are shot with flash and the lumiquest soft-box.
since i have the sigma 500 dg super: does the stofen omnibounce
give the same effect as the soft-box does?

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I have both the StoFen omni-bounce and the Lumiquest SoftBox. I
find that, for many subjects, the Stofen is just fine at softening
the shadows. It does NOT soften them as much as the Softbox... but
very often, I end up using BOTH in combination to get extremely
soft shadows....



You end up getting very soft shadows that way...

The softening of shadows comes from the dispersion of light. A
wide area light creates softer shadows than a narrow beam. For
this reason ALONE, one can see that the physics are in favour of
the Softbox, as it dpsperses the light over a much larger area.

This is not to say that the Stofen doesn't do a good job. It does
disperse light quite well...



That's with the stofen alone... note the shadows for this tiny
little guy (he was maybe 3/4 of an inch long. Even at close
distances and with his limbs so close to the ground, you get some
soft shadows. Would they have been softer with the SoftBox?
Likely... Is it 'okay' with the StoFen? I think so.

But if you look at his eye-reflections in the full-sized version

http://www.arcdiv.com/images/canon-07202004/CRW_1796-spider6-cr.jpg

you can see the little reflections of the flash in the classic
square StoFen shape. I wonder how it would have looked with the
softbox (bigger glare? No idea).

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