Originally Posted by
bob williams
Well, The birds haven't been as active as I'd hoped the last couple of weekends, But I did manage to get a couple. This morning (before sunrise) I tried something a little different. I had read somewhere that the key to lighting up the irridescent feathers was to get your flash as close to the axis of the lens as possible, So I decided to try my ring flash mounted on my 100L macro and place it about 24 inches from the target. I shot several shots with the bird at the feeder and found that the ring light simply didn't have enough power at 1/32---at least not enough to balance with the 580 and 430s I was using with background and top/bottom lighting. I eventually had to move another speedlight up near the lens before I got a fairly well lit shot. I still couldn't manage to light up that beautiful purple gorget of the blackchinned.---Here it is:
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