Strobist Goes Natural

Since I got into portable off-camera flash a few years ago, the Strobist blog has without doubt helped me more than anything or anyone else. David hobby's keenness and enthusiasm for lighting comes across in every post he makes and he corroborates everything he preaches with hard evidence that many photographers could only dream of producing.

His latest blog post is particularly insightful; keen to feed an interest in the birds that inhabit his garden an their food source, he ends up calling upon a raft of lighting knowledge to kmake one of the most awesome images of a bird I've seen for ages. It's the pose, the fact pretty sharp (considering it's shot remotely on a 70-200mm) and the fact that you can clearly see the bug in the bird's mouth.

It's this kind of photography that many of us crave to achieve yet never put into action. If anything, it's got me looking away from the TV and into the back garden to see what visitors I'm getting...

Read the full blog (and lose yourself in a world of lighting info) by clicking here