Posted by John Robinson on March 25, 2008 at 5:14 AM
From the later days of my pool work using flash. I have now gone over to high ISO rates and slow shutter speeds.
This was with the standard set up I always used.
Two Metz 402 heads -one left at camera height one right at 5 foot height.
Right head main, left head baffled three layers greaseproof paper. One small slave flash 3 foot above pool fired by right flash.
Nikon D100 manual 200 ISO low contrast
f16
Sigma 100-300 mm.
Some small flash water highlights taken down in Paintshop Pro
JohnR
Posted by Andy Astbury on March 25, 2008 at 5:21 AM
Superbly balanced exposure there John - cracking job
My only nit would be the slightly high PoV
Lovely job
Posted by John Robinson on March 25, 2008 at 5:31 AM
Thanks Andy
Like I,ve explained nothing I can do without rebuilding the 30 year old hide. I also dont like too much reflection like you get with the low angle- it cries out for portrait format too much and lowers the impact of the bird in size. The other thing of course with this little fella - he was right at the front of the pool which makes it look higher. I could make a lower hole but I get neck ache !!
Cheers
John
the flash exposure looks great and certainly a different treecreeper image to those we normally see. I like this a lot.
Matt
Posted by Paul Inglis on March 25, 2008 at 6:28 AM
Hi John,
Superb capture! Thanks for taking the time to go through your flash set-up! I am building a small wildlife pond and bog for the purpose of photography and sincerely hope I can produce stunning images from it like you have!
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9 repliesThis was with the standard set up I always used.
Two Metz 402 heads -one left at camera height one right at 5 foot height.
Right head main, left head baffled three layers greaseproof paper. One small slave flash 3 foot above pool fired by right flash.
Nikon D100 manual 200 ISO low contrast
f16
Sigma 100-300 mm.
Some small flash water highlights taken down in Paintshop Pro
JohnR
My only nit would be the slightly high PoV
Lovely job
Like I,ve explained nothing I can do without rebuilding the 30 year old hide. I also dont like too much reflection like you get with the low angle- it cries out for portrait format too much and lowers the impact of the bird in size. The other thing of course with this little fella - he was right at the front of the pool which makes it look higher. I could make a lower hole but I get neck ache !!
Cheers
John
Matt
Superb capture! Thanks for taking the time to go through your flash set-up! I am building a small wildlife pond and bog for the purpose of photography and sincerely hope I can produce stunning images from it like you have!
Rene de Heer
Very nice capture John , I too have never seen one on the ground
Andy...