Hi Dean,
Thanks for the details of your flash setup. Alas, in my case, I am using
the flash that is built into the top of the Olympus E-510. I am afraid to
use my old Braun Hobby flash with modern camera electronic circuits, and
have not yet found a need to spend for a compatible external unit.
Thanks for the kind words about the image. It came from my first day of
experimenting with the flash unit outdoors.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Dean Hansen" <hanse112@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 10:39 AM
Subject: [OM] IMG: Applying Fill Flash
> Jim recently posted:
>
> "I decided to try using minimum fill flash in closeup shots outdoors.
> In this case, it helped the flower considerably, but washed out the pale
> Clouded Sulphur Butterfly. With darker subjects, it appears to work
> better.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Total+Immersion.jpg.html
>
> The butterfly was immersed as deeply as possible in the deep-throated
> bloom.
>
> Comments and critiques welcomed.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA"
>
> For many of my butterfly shots, I use a T-32 flash mounted on a
> Bogen "Magic Arm," and I can put the flash a foot or more away from the
> camera. I like to have the T-32 well above the axis of the camera lens
> (usually a Tammy 60-300 on the OM 65-116 auto extension tube) and in
> front of the lens, and pointing downward. This lets the fill flash hit
> the butterfly's wing at a very oblique angle, and this oblique angle
> both reduces the "washed out" exposure that an axial flash will give and
> helps bring out the veins and details in the wings. In Jim's shot, the
> sun appears to be coming from about 1 o'clock, judging from the shadows
> on the leaves. The fill flash leaves a slight shadow of the left wings
> on the upper side of the right pair of wings. Where's the flash
> located, Jim? It seems to be coming from below the axis of the lens.
> Using axial flash with butterflies, whether reduced or not, will, I
> feel, decrease detail in the wings and, too often, give a washed out
> exposure. This is much less likely with an off-axis flash. (I know
> I've explained this before.)
> Exposure of the flower and leaves is very nice. Overall, an
> interesting shot. Actually, it's maybe the first time I've liked a shot
> that doesn't show the whole butterfly. The next step in this direction
> will be to photograph a bumblebee gathering nectar or pollen from a
> closed gentian--the bee forces the closed petals apart to enter the
> flower, then it totally disappears inside the bloom, which closes up
> again while the bee is feeding. I took a Super 8 movies film of a
> closed gentian "giving birth" to a bumblebee as it backs out of the
> closed flower. This always brings a laugh from an audience.
> Dean
>
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