From the course: Lighting with Flash: Portrait of a Beekeeper and His Bees

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Lighting notebook: Bee macro

Lighting notebook: Bee macro

From the course: Lighting with Flash: Portrait of a Beekeeper and His Bees

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Lighting notebook: Bee macro

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Okay. So here we are with our very tight bees. And I've got 'em drawn in a little hive there. I know you're impressed with my art skills. I'm entirely, I'm entirely self taught. so this is the key for this picture. every picture has a key to it. It might be. My ambient light level is so high that, that I feel like I need to start at a 250th of a second to give me the most flash friendly aperture that I can hit or the key might be that I need to choose a certain aperture for depth of field. Here's the key to this picture, just a couple inches from my face, there are going to be lots and lots of stingers. So that's going to drive every decision that I make downstream. And the first thing that's going to cause me to do is that's going to cause me to shoot in TTL because I don't want to take any test shots. I want to lean right in there and get a picture that's fairly close. I can tweak it if I have to in post production afterwards. But I don't think I'm going to have to because this is…

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