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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Applying Fill Flash
From: pasvorn at boonmark.net (Pasvorn Boonmark)
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:14:25 -0700
References: <2F0FE121600442949380568DDDB1B2D0@jimnichols>

Jim,

Nice colors.  Is this a built-in flash?

Have you tried off-camera flash?
I shot some of my wife's orchids using off-camera flash from either
underneath, or behind the flowers.
The result was not bad.  I got an intense luminous colors from the flowers.


-Pasvorn

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> 
wrote:
> 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
>


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