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Old 08-21-2009, 06:54 PM
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Originally Posted by wulf View Post
If the bird was sitting still, as owls are wont to do, taking the same image with two different exposure settings and blending them in post production might be a better route to dealing with lighting in that sort of situation rather than attempting to use flash. As well as mixing different kinds of light, flash also drops off in efficiency over a long distance and might disturb a subject like a bird or animal.

Wulf
Flash doesn't disturb birds-I have used flash from 6 feet away from a bird on a branch outside my house,and flash didn't register with the bird(image below)
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