After a week or so of wide angle fun in Manado and Bangka I have finally jumped into the relatively cold waters (27C!!!) of Lembeh to play around with some more macro with my D90. On this series I have been using a straight 105mm, no extensions or TCs this time around. I have been concentrating on playing with light. For any of you who have attended one of my talks, I really stress doing something different with your lighting in macro to make it stand out. This can include varying strobe powers, blocking the strobes with your fingers, a rock or other handy object, or snooting. Although I had two strobes on the camera, I have only used one for this series and most of it was with a snoot on it. I have been using different sized openings on my handy dandy snoot, the patented design is still working strong over the years although I have to make a new one every time I use it… haha. Water bottle, toilet roll, and duct tape (Dean B would be proud!)
The key as Drew mentioned in a different post is hand holding the strobe off camera (preferably holding the arm as opposed to the strobe head to get it out as far as possible)
It can be tough to aim and somewhat frustrating especially if a frogfish yawns and your strobe is pointing behind it. The snoot means you have to be very careful where you point it. I even had one of my diveguides point it at a blue ribbon eel for me as I couldn’t match the way it was moving on my own…
Here are some pics, more on my Facebook
