Zeidora said:I use the MPE65 and MT24 a lot [I burnt out one flash tube].
I was shooting in a field that was wet from dew and one of my flash heads stopped working. Took about two weeks to get it repaired.
Zeidora said:On the MT24 I use the garry fong puffers.
I made a set using a pair of Sto-Fens as the connection point to the flash heads. I cut up a replacement wide angle diffusion panel for a 600 RT and hot glued the pieces directly to the MT-24EX flash heads, then a set of Sto-Fens, and then a piece of 1/2 white diffusion material. A pair of Garry Fong Puffer Plus diffusers are the final stage, and all of it held together with a frame that I built using Legos. Due to the way it's built it's solid, but I can still break it down and change the materials out if I want to experiment with something new.
Zeidora said:...This becomes even more important with z-stacking...
I avoid all of that by simply not focus stacking I like the depth and detail that I can get in a single frame stopped down. this shot was taken at 2x and F16:
Sleeping Cuckoo Bee by John Kimbler, on Flickr
Tech Specs: Canon 70D (F16, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (around 2x) + a diffused MT-24EX. This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held.
Technique: I went looking for dormant bees early in the morning and found this Cuckoo Bee sleeping in my Lavender. After it woke up I placed it next to a Daisy and it went back to sleep. I used an artificial flower behind it to keep the background from being black.
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