A fly with only one wing-SCAREY!!!!!!!

This shot really demonstrates the power of a strobe to really speed up the pic. I doubt I could have got the wing unbrlued even with bright sunlight.
Its something my ring of light will not accomplish.

A strobe will NEVER produce the amount of light that the sun does on a bright day mate. Plus If your shooting flash the highest shutter speed you'll get is 1/250. I can shoot at 1/8000 with the sun illuminating the scene.
Plus-the wing is blurred and has blown out highlights due to bad reflection.

Still a cool shot though. Try birds-bit harder and more detail to capture.

Awesome shot!



Yeah... On a sunny day try shining your brightest torch at a shadow, then use a small mirror to reflect the sun into the shadow. Pretty humbling really...

It's funny you should say that. We used to do the same thing with a small mirror to look down cargo tanks when I was on a bitumen carrier. During the night we would use torches but on overcast days it was impossible to see anything. It was just a big black hole no matter what you did or what size torch you had.

I'd never really made the connection to photography before though.

LOL you should see my brightest torch!

Shine it out the window and I'll take a look

I do. Between the hours of 7am and 7pm. Did you think that was the sun?