John K

If there is nothing behind the subject to reflect the light from the flash back into the camera (so that the background is black) then E-TTL metering can get confused and turn the flash on longer ...

My wife spotted what she thought was a colony of bees nesting in a triangular upraised median between two roads. An area about four square meters was riddled with holes, and it's hard to say just ...

Very well written!! For some odd reason people want to believe that an APS-C sensor is magical and can somehow bend the laws of physics. Unfortunately  a smaller sensor is functionally no different ...

Thanks :) I've tried using ratio control, but the way that Canon implements it it doesn't work the way that I need it to with E-TTL metering. I may experiment with using ratio control and manual ...

Thanks! I'm angling the plane of focus, usually by twisting my wrist but I can also do it by manipulating the perch the subject is on.

Difficult to tell by the photo of your rig, but you might want to get the flash a little close to the subject, and angled away from the lens to avoid glare from the flash (glare might be an issue ...

Thanks! Shooting them at their home is tricky. Best to get a local beekeeper to open up a hive, give the girls a few minutes to calm down, and then go in for the shot. For the record: I've been ...

This one is sort of a work in progress -got some compositions still stuck in my head. The setup is pretty simple: I mixed up some "artificial nectar" (2:1 sugar syrup with some butterfly nectar ...

This one is sort of a work in progress -got some compositions still stuck in my head. The setup is pretty simple: I mixed up some "artificial nectar" (2:1 sugar syrup with some butterfly nectar ...