At the horse-riding centre, where I try to learn to horse-ride , there are many barn swallows with nests. Because it's pretty dark in the stables it wasn't easy to take pictures of them, so I used direct (hard) flash. Because of that it isn't a technical nice photo, but I like the picture anyway.

Jan.

[Adam]

Great capture!

[gnodde]

Great capture!

That's why I've posted this photo. I hope to experiment later this week with the same subject in using other flash-options.

Jan.

[dcmsox2004]

super capture... now that's something new i've not seen before.... thanks for sharing...dave m

[8540tomg]

Very impressive - well done.

Tom G

[gnodde]

Ok, as promissed, I made some more photo's of these barn swallows last night. I used my Sigma 530 flash, reduced the flashpower with 0.7 EV and used an "inflatable softbox" to soften the flashlight.
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Jan.