My briefest ever post! About 3 weeks ago I set out to photograph some damselflies. I got dressed in yesterday’s clothes and left home without even cleaning my teeth. It was 6:00 am and the air was cool. I knew that the damselflies would be down low in the grass, covered in dew and reluctant to fly. Given how lazy I am, the chances of a repeat performance were low. I took my OM-1 Mk2 with the OM Systems 90mm macro pro lens. Atop the camera was my trusty Godox V350O flash. It was machine-gun time! I would take stacks of 20 or more photos and then use Helicon Focus to create fabulous photos.
Needles-to-say, it was a disaster. I took more than 500 photos and almost none were ‘keepers’. Why? Because I didn’t think long or hard enough about the balance between the light from the flash and the daylight. As a result, most of the stacks were blurred because they consisted of two images – the one from the flash and a blurred one created by the ambient light. Added to that failure was the difficulty I had holding the camera still enough to have image sets that would stack. The 90mm is heavy and trying to hold the camera with one hand while holding a grass stem still with the other was beyond me… too damn old! Next time, use a lighter lens! However, I did get some shots I quite liked…
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