{"id":5439,"date":"2020-05-12T09:49:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T09:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=5439"},"modified":"2023-02-24T00:41:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T00:41:47","slug":"day-49-in-our-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/day-49-in-our-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 49 in our garden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As suggested in Day 48 this is about getting photos of the Blue Tits using flash. I had tried full power flash but the birds were even more blurred than when using 1\/1000s shutter. Canon don’t publish figures for flash duration, the flash gun manual was no help, so I went on t’internet and found that at full power the flash lasts for around 1\/500s. Using 1\/250s shutter and 1\/500s flash therefore had more motion blur than 1\/1000s without the flash, but it does allow a small aperture for decent depth of field and low ISO for less noise. A compromise was needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There seemed to be several “charts” for flash duration and the numbers varied quite a bit due to variation in what level of brightness you start timing. It takes a finite amount to ramp the brightness up and down but one chart that seemed reasonable quoted 1\/4 power as 1\/3000s so I set my flash gun to 1\/4 power. And here is a selection of the results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I still had to use 1\/250s shutter speed for the flash sync but I could use a smallish aperture. The small aperture gave me a good range of distance that was in focus (depth of field) but at that exposure it meant that the ambient light was also playing a significant part, especially in those where the camera is pointing out into the rest of the garden where it was bright. This resulted in the flash “freezing” the bird at a particular place but the foliage in line with the bird was also photographed as part of the longer “normal” exposure. Therefore in some of the photos the bird was a bit ghost like; the foliage could be seen through it. The ones that I have included here are not too bad though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ones where the camera is pointing into the shaded areas show the bird nicely but it makes the shot quite stark and a bit unreal. I could try blurring backgrounds, lightening or darkening selected areas but I would probably not be happy with the results. They wouldn’t look real. At least with the un-doctored photos they might not look real but I know why that is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the index to the\u00a0Days in our garden series<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As suggested in Day 48 this is about getting photos of the Blue Tits using flash. I had tried full power flash but the birds were even more blurred than when using 1\/1000s shutter. Canon don’t publish figures for flash duration, the flash gun manual was no help, so I went on t’internet and found […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5446,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Day 49 in our garden. Blue Tits by flash.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/7D2_5333.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3kGoX-1pJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8056,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5439\/revisions\/8056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}