{"id":400,"date":"2013-08-04T00:03:21","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T04:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=400"},"modified":"2013-09-01T11:42:06","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T15:42:06","slug":"trying-out-meet-your-neighbours-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/?p=400","title":{"rendered":"Trying Out “Meet Your Neighbours” — Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nature has explained to me many things that books alone could not give me. Science and nature have given me the most interesting hours of my life. \u00a0<\/em>\u2014Roman Vishniac<\/p>\n

I first heard about “Meet Your Neighbours<\/a>” (the “u” is intentional) during the BioBlitz at Rocky Mountain National Park. \u00a0Clay Bolt gave a presentation on this project that is associated with ILCP and lists some pretty impressive photographers as participants. The technique is fairly straightforward<\/a>. \u00a0Basically you use white plexiglas (acrylic) with a flash behind it to create a pure white background for your subject. \u00a0Flash in front provides the main light. It creates a very consistent appearance and makes it easy to extract the image. \u00a0I used it for my project in Nebraska at Homestead National Monument, but not under the best circumstances, trying it for the first time in the field. So today when my son found a large Imperial Moth on our porch, I thought it was a good opportunity to try it at home where I had more resources.<\/p>\n

Welll — I actually had better luck in the field. \u00a0I used an old Sunpak 311 with a mini-slave for the back lighting. \u00a0It worked reasonably well in Nebraska, but here it just kept shorting out. \u00a0Nevertheless, I was not about to let this opportunity with a very cooperative moth escape without at least trying.\"Imperial<\/a><\/p>\n

Imperial moth (Eacles imperialis<\/em>, female)<\/p>\n

I found that the back lighting wasn’t sufficient and wasn’t even, so I had to do a lot of clean up in post. \u00a0Also need to make sure next time that the plexi is clean – \u00a0it is a real dust magnet.<\/p>\n

I ordered a flash multi-sync cable that I can use to connect an old (not as old as the Sunpak)\u00a0Nikon SB-25\u00a0flash\u00a0to my SB-800 directly and avoid the issues I had with the slave. Hopefully it will work better next time. \u00a0Also played around a little with images.\"ImperialMothEdgesDiff\"\"ImperialMothEdges\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nature has explained to me many things that books alone could not give me. Science and nature have given me the most interesting hours of my life. \u00a0\u2014Roman Vishniac I first heard about “Meet Your Neighbours” (the “u” is intentional) … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8lcUy-6s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richeskinphoto.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}