Is it ok to use a camera flash when taking photos of snakes?
I've been avoiding it so far but the room is a little dim and I'm getting a lot of grain from trying to compensate with higher ISOs to avoid using the flash.
It's a legacy term carried over from traditional photography, a larger number means a more sensitive film or in modern digital cameras how sensitive the sensor is. Putting it onto a higher number means you'll be able to take photos in low light conditions without using a flash but the downside is that you'll introduce a lot more noise into the photo. The noise can usually be seen as a graininess when you zoom into the photo. You can also use higher ISOs in normal lighting conditions to use faster shutter speeds to capture fast moving objects.
Try holding your eyes open while someone takes of picture of you with a bright flash. Its fairly uncomfortable. This is what I think it must be like for snakes, seeing as they cannot blink.
9.11 Cornsnakes 1.1 Hogg island boas 1.0 Dwarf Burmese python
No need to use a flash all the time. Up your ISO to around 400 or higher (more noise or grainier pics though) and you can reduce your shutter speed and at the same time (allows more light but you have the disadvantage of camera shake) use a larger aperture to ensure more of the image is in focus Around F11- F16 or F8-F5.6 for a much smaller depth of field. If you play with the settings you don't awlays need to use the flash, try and take your pics in natural light as the effects are so much nicer.
the way i see it is if they didnt like it they would jump or twitch atleast most of my pics are taken using flash and neither of my 2 have ever been bothered my it at all
Flash photography
Posted - 22/01/2010 : 17:18:39
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