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coder wrote:
I like the light to darker blue gradient you got here. I'm not sure what to make of the artificial backgrounds like this, I like the idea in general of manipulating the background like that, though. It's almost convincing as a blue sky, and I wonder if I didn't know how you did it if thats what I would have concluded it was.
Light on the bee is really nice, BTW.
Before I started describing how I was shooting that background in detail I got a lot of comments about the "blue sky" or "how did you expose for the subject and the sky at those settings?" comments. So if I didn't tell you you might not know that it's fake. Also if you look at the work of some of the old nature photographers you should be able to tell by their camera settings if the background is actually the sky, natural light reflecting off of a leaf, or the flash. The difference between them and me is that I'm letting you know what I'm doing
I like the light on the bee as well, but my current diffusion is forcing me to shoot at ISO 200 in most cases to get a short flash duration. I'm taking some material with me on vacation so I might be modifying it slightly. Not sure though -the diffusion is looking really good...
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