Sea snail macro with world’s cheapest ring flash – P365 Nov19
- At November 21, 2007
- By Neil Creek
- In Animals, Equipment, Experimental, Flash, Macro, Nature, Setup
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This is one of the snails we collected when we went down to Brighton Beach the weekend before last.
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And this is the setup I used to capture the shot, with the world’s cheapest, lightest, easiest to make ring flash.
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Being so close to the glass, the flash was casting a shadow of the lens on the snail. Having used paper stuck to the glass of the tank as a diffuser before, I had an idea to do the same here, but cut a hole in the paper the size of the lens. That way I could light the paper with the flash, diffuse the light around the lens, and get better light coverage from that close. There was enough of a gap that the glass was reflecting some light back into the lens, so I just snipped off the bottom of the sheet and lay it across the top of the lens.
Technical details:
Canon 350D on tripod.
Tamron 24-135mm @ 135mm with 75mm of extension.
Canon 580EX flash, set 10 1/2 power, 105mm zoom, triggered by Cactus V2 remote.
1/80th sec, f11, ISO200
Setup shot taken with ancient Canon Powershot A200.
Glenn
Nice lighting tech and great results
I’m interested to know where you got the flash holder, it looks more versatile and robust than any I’ve seen available on ebay
Thanks
Glenn