If you’ve spent time looking at my photo galleries, you’ll know most of my macro images are lit with an off-camera flash. While I’d like to claim that flash is my personal style, the reality is that flash is more convenient. Flash provides the control to take a consistently well-exposed photo in any place at any time of day. Images look exactly like I want them to, whether shot in the harsh glare of midday or the black of midnight.
Sunlight by itself, though, does marvelous things twice a day. At sunset and sunrise light goes sideways, leaving long gentle shadows. The quality of natural light at these times is superb for flash-free photography, and yesterday evening I went to Meadowbrook park with my 100mm f2.8 macro lens to capture the prairie as the sun went down.
A personal blog by Illinois-based biologist and photographer Alex Wild.
Enchanting pictures!
Thistle capitula are fabulous nectar abd pollen eater habitat – beautifully depicted, Alex!
Ain’t that the truth. I’ve got a Friday Beetle coming up from this same photo session on the thistle.
Your pictures make me curious about the nature, is really beautiful.