Originally posted by JensE Thanks a lot for sharing the details. I fully agree with WPRESTO, an amazing result for such a tiny active subject.
Thank you!
Quote: How about light? It looks like a single, fairly wide-angle (diffuse) light source from top-left. I like the nice smooth fall-off on the highlights.
Good eye! Yes, I use a single li-ion flash (a Godox V850ii). In the shot above, the flash is on an L-Bracket, along with a thingamajig that allows me to get the flash horizontal. The idea is to get the diffusion surface as close to the subject as possible, both for softness and to minimize power use. (Lower power means the flash can keep up with a K-3 firing at 8.3fps.) I also now try to slide the L-Bracket as close to the body as possible, so that the flash is camera-left, but just a bit. I like some light directionality, but I found that when using the L-bracket "normally", the light was coming from too far left. You can see an old picture of the L-bracket with horizontal flash
right here, but remember that now I keep the flash closer to the camera body, so there's actually a piece of the bottom of the bracket that is sticking out at the bottom of the camera (which is now a K-3, as opposed to the K-01 in the photo). I'm also shooting with the flash wired now, as I've found wireless unreliable with the Godox when the flash is so close to the transmitter. Maybe I should just post a pic of my latest setup...! Triggering the flash has been a bit of a nuisance, BTW. The wired PC-sync connection on the K-3 body isn't threaded - or rather I should say the threads in it are not the same size as the threads on my (I assume, standard) cable - so I can't screw the cable in to the connection. As a result, the cable tends to wiggle loose over a session and that can cause misfires at the most inopportune moments.