Philippe writes:
>>A very well caught beauty Mike
>>I must learn to work with a flash - even though I lent the fuji to
>>Alice for a congress last week and she came back with outstanding
>>(jpeg) pixes WITHOUT flash ...
>>Amitiés to Marnie too
Marnie sends her regards to you and Alice too. Thanks for looking.
I was seeing if the T32 could be a compact fill flash solution and be
off axis in portrait orientation enough for this size B'fly to capture
wing texture and bring out the colors.
It was a trial run for a Baltimore Checkerspot quest---they are usually
out by July 4th here. They are very very showy but in flat light just
don't
photograph well. There may be something about the iridescent/very dark
background that just doesn't respond well to lifting the shadows, LCE
etc.
I think flash fill will fix that--that is my working hypothesis. The
auto sensor on the T32 set two stops below exposure still tends to be 2
stops too strong with a
greenish distant background at the estimated mag for a medium sized
b'fly . I did a test run before I left and a 2 or 3 stop ND filter is
just about right and I still have more flexibility than manual.
Someone else had the Canyon ring light using ETTL with the A/B sides
set about 2:1 which worked well w/o being too flat for smallish
b'flies, but my solution was
satisfactory and much less costly. I don't think he was impressed at
all with my flash solution but was surprised to see a Big Foot in the
wild.
Student of Dr. Flash, Mike
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