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This was taken in broad daylight with my D700, 70-200 vr 2.8 and my SB-800 with no masking in PP.

Comments and suggestions welcome.

Cheers, joe

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Nov 21, 2009 at 03:35 PM

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Comment: Excellent color, detail and composition.
Suggestion: Keep up the excellent work.

Best wishes,
Richard

Nov 21, 2009 at 03:45 PM

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p.1 #3 · Playing with flash

Love #2 Joe!

Nov 21, 2009 at 04:00 PM

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p.1 #4 · Playing with flash

Excellent.
Could you share some tips on your flash settings:
specifically did you set the zoom on the flash to match your focal length, and how
much under exposed did you set the flash (-1 EV or similar?).
Thanks, and great results.
Mike

Nov 21, 2009 at 05:33 PM

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p.1 #5 · Playing with flash

The bold colors in number one gets my vote. All three are beautiful... wonderful captures.

Paul S

Nov 21, 2009 at 05:35 PM

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p.1 #6 · Playing with flash

These are all stunning

Excellent work. Got to love the D700

Lil

Nov 21, 2009 at 05:42 PM

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p.1 #7 · Playing with flash

Joe,

You have wonderful sharp photos with subtle flash exposure that filled the shadows while letting the natural highlights come out. This is the way it’s supposed to be done. I looked at your exif data and could not read the flash setting. I’m suspecting you used the wonderful TTL-BL of the Nikon CLS. If you did this the old way dialing in flash compensation or using manual flash my complements to you as the results are spot on.

The black backgrounds create very dramatic images. Some would prefer to see the background come through. For me this is fine.

Morris

Nov 21, 2009 at 05:58 PM

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p.1 #8 · Playing with flash

Wow this series is super nice!!!

Mahalo,
Brandon

Nov 21, 2009 at 06:12 PM

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p.1 #9 · Playing with flash

Suggestions: None
Comments: WOW!

Lynn

Nov 21, 2009 at 06:15 PM

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p.1 #10 · Playing with flash

EXCELLENT work! Care to share the technique? The lighting control is just awesome.

Nov 21, 2009 at 08:05 PM

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p.1 #11 · Playing with flash

Beautiful work, only thing I would suggest is to clone out the catch light in #1 and #3
Just my 2-cents worth

Dan

Nov 21, 2009 at 08:28 PM

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p.1 #12 · Playing with flash

Beautiful

Tim

Nov 21, 2009 at 08:37 PM

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p.1 #13 · Playing with flash

Wow, these are nice. Not as easy as it looks, I'll bet.

Nov 21, 2009 at 09:54 PM

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p.1 #14 · Playing with flash

beautifully sharp and colorful, great composition!

Nov 21, 2009 at 10:05 PM

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p.1 #15 · Playing with flash

Thanks for the comments.

It really is not that hard.... If the lighting is consistent I will shoot in AP and under expose the camera and manually add a ton of flash with my SB-800... I set the camera to FP mode (high sync flash) and use exposure compensation to underexpose the camera and use flash compensation to like +3 with a diffuser, and sometime snooted.

It does not take that long to get the hang of it and you know where you need to be before you ever look at your first histogram.

Here are a few more example that I took in my backyard with wild iguana's

Cheers and thank again.
Joe

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Nov 21, 2009 at 11:29 PM

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p.1 #16 · Playing with flash

It's a pleasure to see flash so expertly used - a photographer's skill - vs ultra-high ISO - machine skill.

My compliments. Excellent work.

Nov 22, 2009 at 12:25 AM

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p.1 #17 · Playing with flash

Wow, that is all I can say!
Love them all
Larry

Nov 22, 2009 at 12:49 AM

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p.1 #18 · Playing with flash

Nice work-and narrative-and very wild back yard.
Cheers
Harry

Nov 22, 2009 at 01:06 AM

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p.1 #19 · Playing with flash

Graet work! I LOVE #3. I'm a parrot lover.

Nov 22, 2009 at 01:20 AM

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p.1 #20 · Playing with flash

Super work Joe, #2

Rob

Nov 22, 2009 at 04:48 AM

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p.1 #21 · Playing with flash

wow thanks for sharing these amazing photo's, really opens up a whole new vista doing it that way.
Really do like the dark backgrounds and focus.

Evan Spellman

Nov 22, 2009 at 04:55 AM

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p.1 #22 · Playing with flash

Super work Joe!
Martin

Nov 22, 2009 at 09:07 AM

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p.1 #23 · Playing with flash

Great shots Joe, a very nice series with terrific colour, some great subjects and very sharp results. Paul.

Nov 22, 2009 at 03:57 PM

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p.1 #24 · Playing with flash

Stunning!

Paul

Nov 22, 2009 at 04:09 PM

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p.1 #25 · Playing with flash

Very impressive. The Iguanas are gorgeous

Dick.

Nov 23, 2009 at 01:22 AM


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