Pages

▼

Friday, January 21, 2011

Wildlife Photography Tip #6: Use Flash When You Have To

While I normally don't like to use flash in any outdoor photography, there is an exception. This shot was taken on a day in Okinawa, Japan where the skies went from blue to grey in a matter of seconds.

The bird, a Japanese White Eye landed among the Cherry blossoms and was in fairly horrible light.
He wasn't much more than 6 feet away from me, standing under the tree. I removed my lens hood, popped up the camera flash, focused and fired.

Camera flash doesn't phase wildlife. I was able to let the camera flash recharge and took several more shots of this bird before it flew away. Keep in mind, an on-camera flash isn't effective for shots more than 10-12 feet away from you.

Flash photography is not my preferred method but, a shot made with flash on wildlife is better than going home with no shot at all !
at

4 comments:

  1. RyanJanuary 22, 2011 at 4:10 AM

    Fantastic shot Mike, I've seen a few Scottish black eyes in my time but this is the first time I've witnessed a Japanese white eye.

    ReplyDelete
  2. RyukyuMikeJanuary 22, 2011 at 3:41 PM

    Ryan,
    Huh? You've only seen a few black eyes? Ya need to get out more often then!

    ReplyDelete
  3. RitchieJanuary 26, 2011 at 8:04 PM

    Hi all,

    Nice photograph! I like it.....
    Wildlife Photography

    ReplyDelete
  4. RyukyuMikeJanuary 27, 2011 at 1:17 AM

    Ritchie,
    Some awesome wildlife photography on your site, too. Glad to share a link with you and I'll be back to visit.

    Cheers,
    Mike

    ReplyDelete

Be nice. Keep comments clean. All moderated. Spam not tolerated. Posting a URL or Link on blog comments is considered SPAM.
The Advertising Department will be glad assist you and we'll all get filthy rich together !

Cheers,
Mike