Photo Blog: Day 15

I have always found photography lighting absolutely fascinating. There are a lot of ways to change the essence of a picture, but lighting is one of the essentials. I am finding more and more often that I am setting my camera up to ISO 800 or 1600, rather than sticking with the safety of an ISO 200 shot with a flash unit.

Part of why I often sit at ISO 200 and use a flash unit is because I absolutely love my flash unit. The drawback of a flash unit is that it eliminates all of the lighting. You don't have to worry about that obnoxious tungsten light bulb, but you don't capture those neat red LEDs either. More importantly, flash units remove most of the shadowing which can create great depth to pictures.

This picture was taken with my Canon XSi, and a 100mm f2.8 macro.