As I went back up to the Hash House today (my granny flat) I spotted this little guy on a dandelion. Out came camera, flash+lightsphere and sync cord. Ahhh... set to manual of 1/500th @ f18 and let the i-ttl flash do the rest! Framing could have been better without clipping that bottom petal. Nikon's 85mm PC micro would have been cool to get the DOF plane to include more petals, but that's $1500 more than I've got. Anyone want to donate to Hash's photography fund?
Also here are a few that I took whilst at Girraween National Park (near Stanthorpe) last weekend. The inch ant I encountered was ferocious! Kept on jumping at the lens!
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You and your Queensland insects! That's gonna make one mother of a butterfly.
Does the d200 sync at 1/500th or are you using FP sync?
Little guy was only 5mm or so across. Probably one of those little white ones. Crazy ant though was scary, I've never seen them jump at you before. Thank goodness for stand off distance... don't think I would have been as brave with a nikkor 60mm micro, looked like it would really hurt.
I recently got an SC-17 ($50! bargin!) sync cable so no more remote 1/60th limit with the onboard commander when flash is off camera. D200 syncs at 1/250th normally, I just dialled in FP sync, not really much of an issue with flash power since it's right on top of the sucker at close range, usually have to dial flash comp. back anyway.
How do you get the flash off camera without a commander? I borrowed the photographer's SU-800 at a recent wedding. Very powerful IR commander. Makes wireless radio slaves pointless as the IR signal gets bounced all over the place, even behind you (something which the onboard flash or SB-800 struggles with)
These are wonderful pixx!
They came up on http://play.blogger.com... I am just driftin' on by...
I'll give your blog a shout on mine this "arvo"...
"How do you get the flash off camera without a commander? "
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I don't. It's all on hot shoe for me. Works ok for most stuff I guess although for some water droplets I was doing it was a pain.
I lurveeee FP sync though, I don't think I could do half the stuff I do without it.
Do you have a bracket for the sb800 or are you just handholding it?
Hand holding for the moment, sometimes put it on the lightstand if I can be bothered but not as flexible. Not sure if any of the solutions I've seen are as flexible as hand holding. Been looking at one of these http://www.flaghead.co.uk/pages/ringflash-intro.html
as a substitute for R1 flash kit (though a few SB-200's can't be all that bad).
Seriously thinking of getting a macro rail plate (or even the kirk long rail plate) to help with focusing when the tripod comes along.
LOL. That looks absolutely badass. Like the mothership.
Wonder how it would go with that much extra weight on a sb800.
How about something like this?http://www.flickr.com/photos/dalantech/1284624304/
:P
I wish Nikon had a mpe65 equivalent :(
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