The following photos were taken on 21 December 2015 at Huntley Meadows Park while field-testing a new Nissin i40 external flash unit with my Fujifilm X-T1 mirrorless digital camera and 55-200mm zoom lens (88-320mm, 35mm equivalent). The camera was set for “Forced Flash”: “Flash On, Fired” appears in the EXIF information for all shots.
The camera was set for Manual Mode: both Aperture and Shutter Speed were operator-selected; ISO was set to “Auto.” Notice the camera used ISO 800 for every shot. One obvious advantage of using a digital camera featuring a larger sensor — in this case, an APS-C sensor — is the camera can shoot relatively noise-free photos at higher ISOs.
Also notice the rich color in each photo, something for which the Fujifilm X-series of cameras is well-known.
Cattails (Typha sp.) gone to seed.
Swamp Rose (Rosa palustris) hips.
An insect gall on Swamp Rose (Rosa palustris). This gall was made by parasitic gall wasps (Diplolepis sp.).
Unknown blue-black berries. Alonso Abugattas, moderator of the “Capital Naturalist” Facebook group, speculates this is probably a species of greenbrier (Smilax sp.).
Unknown seed pods, probably Crimsoneyed Rosemallow (Hibiscus moscheutos).
Related Resource: New tools for flash photography.
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Tags: Crimsoneyed Rosemallow, gall, gall wasp, greenbrier, Hibiscus moscheutos, Huntley Meadows Park, Rosa palustris, Smilax sp., Swamp Rose
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