Re: Need help with glare when photographing frogs

You may place a diffuser in front of the illumination of your tank. That
should give you softer light. Or use a flash unit connected via a butterfly
bracket to your camera. For instructions on how to make such a bracket see
http://biology.fullerton.edu/people/staff/rlallen/photography/butterfly-bracket/

It is obvious that your camera lost all image information in the highlights.

Gregor

<kobun37@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have poison dart frogs that I love to take pictures of and post to
> dart frog boards and my web site. The camera I use is a Canon PowerShot
> A95 with a ring adapter and a set of macro lenses (1X, 2X, 4X, and
> 10X). I use a tripod to take the shots when possible, but I have a
> problem with glare, either from a bounced flash or from the fluorescent
> lights on their tanks. You can see what I'm talking about with the
> following pic. 56K warning on the pic:
>
> http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a126/Arklier/femaleazureus.jpg
>
> I did not use a flash for this one, as you can tell by the shadows, but
> there's glare on the frog's back and legs from the light on the tank. I
> can't exactly take the frogs out and stick them in an environment
> that's more suitable for photography. Are there any settings or filters
> I should look into to get rid of the white spots?
>


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