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More fun with fill flash. I was playing with the flash speed to both stop those fast beating wings and bring out the colors and irridescence of this Costa's Hummingbird.
STROBIST
4 HSS flashguns on a FourSquare from LightwareDirect. HSS-Triggered via YN-622.No lightformers.
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Aaah, you all know these folks, right? Some citations:
"Nono, no flash, flashlight is always the wrong light!"
"I prefer daylight so much, because it is so *natural.*"
"I **only** use natural daylight, because it is the only light, that preserves my colors."
And so on.
I say: Bullshit!!!! :-)))
From left to right:
1. Daylight shot, 1/250 second, sooc
2. Underexposed Version of 1. (two stops, simulated in Adobe Camera Raw)
3. Shot with HSS flash, 1/1000 second, sooc
4. Dito, after minor ACR and PS tweaks
Most interesting thing: All shots have the same fixed constant White Balance: :T = 5500 Kelvin. :-)
No tweaks here, its all just natural magic! :-)
Well, if you shoot a sunset and overexpose (to get more of your model than just a silhouette), your water and sky will be white. But if you exposre right.... hmmm, wow, golden shine!
While having fun with shooting food splashy subjects, I started to feel a little hungry.
Strobist info "food": #1 MINOLTA 5400HS 1/32 power, @28mm, through a DIY grid, camera right, 30cm from subject. Ebay Trigger PT-04S.
Strobist info "diver": #1 MINOLTA 5400HS 1/32 power, @28mm, inside a small softbox, camera left, 1m high, 30cm from subject. Ebay Trigger PT-04S.
Post processing: GIMP 2.8.2 - composite, underwater effect and horizontal flip on diver.
April 11, 2026: Retired Santa Clarita Signal newspaper photographer Dan Watson demonstrates a century-old flash powder gun used with a Graflex camera before the 1930s introduction of flash bulbs. Dan was onstage after receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award during the Press Photographers Association of Greater Los Angeles (PPAGLA) annual banquet held at the Arizona State University California Center, in downtown Los Angeles. Master of Ceremonies, Jim Thornton, is on the right,
Dan's great uncle, George Watson, founded the Press Photographers Association of Greater Los Angeles (PPAGLA) in 1936. A 1919 image of George Watson, with the same Graflex camera, is on the left.
Dan Watson is the 10th Watson family photographer who has covered Los Angeles history for 150 years. The ASU California Center is located in the former Los Angeles Herald-Examiner Building.
The camera was made in the 1960s, in various models . The flasholder on the left was made by Kodak in the USA and in Canada. The flasholder on the right was from Germany , "specially made for" the Brownie Fiesta camera .
At least I think it's the elusive green flash you can sometimes see as the sun sets, even with a 600mm focal it's a large crop but I never thought I'd see such a rare optical phenomena. Wish I had the chops to do a series of pics together to show how it changed but you can see that on the Wikipedia page :
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_flash
Seems there are different types, not sure if this is a mock-mirage green flash.
The Kevin Ayer's song ' Red, Green and You Blue ' almost fits the picture perfectly !
Oh my god. I'd forgotten how much I loved Time Zero film.
I bought a pack off Ebay recently after running out of it a year ago. I didn't expect it to work but it's pretty much perfect - even 3+ years past its expiration date!
600 has nothing on the beautiful, muted colors or the development time, which is about 4 times faster (fitting, for this subject).
Why the hell did they discontinue this stuff? Oh, right.
This occurs when the light from the setting sun is refracted by the atmosphere just as the sun dips below the horizon. Only seen in certain atmospheric conditions, I consider myself vey lucky to have got it my first attempt
My aunt passed away this month after 2 years of fighting with cancer. She left me sweet memories and her lovely cat. I will cherish him as heritage from my aunt and take care of him for the rest of his life.
Let me introduce the new member of my family-- Nene, a 4-year-old male cat. He looks so serious on my husband's knees.
小時候曾經一起住的阿姨，這個月因為癌症過世了，她留給我很多美好的回憶和愛，以及她的貓咪。我決定將貓咪當做阿姨留給我的禮物，永遠照顧他。
請讓我正式向大家介紹我家的新成員--Nene，他目前四歲，是個淘氣愛吃的小帥哥，請大家多多愛護歐！
PS. 標題出自唐代，徐鉉的「哭刑部侍郎喬公詩」。
~世界山莊, 文山區, 台北市
Vision City Community, Taipei, Taiwan
- ISO 1600, F2.8, 1/125 sec, 100mm
- Canon 5D MarkIII with EF 100mm f/2.8 L macro lens
- Shot @ 8.36am
The green flash and green ray are meteorological optical phenomena that sometimes occur transiently around the moment of sunset or sunrise.
When the conditions are right, a distinct green spot is briefly visible above the upper rim of the Sun's disk; the green appearance usually lasts for no more than two seconds. Rarely, the green flash can resemble a green ray shooting up from the sunset or sunrise point.
Green flashes occur because the earth's atmosphere can cause the light from the Sun to separate out into different colours. Green flashes are a group of similar phenomena that stem from slightly different causes, and therefore, some types of green flashes are more common than others.
Green flashes may be observed from any altitude. They usually are seen at an unobstructed horizon, such as over the ocean, but are possible over cloud tops and mountain tops as well. They may occur at any latitude, although at the equator, the flash rarely lasts longer than a second.
This image was taken in the Indian Ocean.
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RUFOUS-TAILED HUMMINGBIRD Amazilia tzacatl. This Rufous-tailed Hummingbird is feeding at a red Sleeping Hibiscus Malvariscus arboreus flower at our house in Mindo. The hummingbird almost appears to be flying upside down, a sort of optical illusion. However, its back, wings and tail (as viewed here from above) are in a "normal" back above/abdomen below orientation, while the head and neck are rotated a little more than 90 degrees so that the bill faces to the left with the bill tip somewhat upward.
Malvariscus arboreus is a large shrub which blooms year round in Mindo and is widely used for hedges; it produces abundant flowers and the Rufous-tailed Hummingbird feeds extensively at these flowers. In the Sleeping Hibiscus flower, the petals do not furl out but remain swirled around the pistil forming a sort of tube. The bill of the Rufous-tailed Hummingbird is not long enough to reach all the way from the distal opening of the petals to the base and it pierces the petals near their base to reach the nectar. It does so by using the force of its hovering flight to press the bill tip against the petals, often penetrating two petals. Frequently the flowers are suspended at an angle and the Rufous-tailed Hummingbird pierces these flowers from their upper surface. The bill is somewhat decurved and probably for this reason the hovering Rufous-tailed Hummingbird often rotates its head as much as 90 degrees or more for the bill to be able to reach the nectar which is located above the hole produced by the bill.
This photo was taken in Mindo in northwestern Ecuador on December 15, 2014.
Un colibrí llamado Amazilia Colicastáño Amazilia tzacatl está penetrando los petalos de una flor roja Malvariscus arboreus para alcanzar en néctar en Mindo en el noroccidente de Ecuador el 15 de diciembre de 2014.
No flash - I never use flash!
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