Stress from camera flash

Jay Hemdal · Oct 16, 2020

I've always wondered about the possible effects that camera flash would have on the fish that I photograph. Here is a paper from last year, it seems that for at least some species, the effect is minimal: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41...cQ1vUYkttxKTKudCy-5CkP_mMcdbnBUtWUsRbMzZCExYU

Jay

CCauthers · Oct 16, 2020

Do you use flash for all of your fish photos?

Jay Hemdal · Oct 16, 2020

No, but I have a certain technique that I personally like, where the background is underexposed/black. I can only get that with a flash. The attached tuskfish image was taken with a remote flash top down, and me shooting 90 degrees to that.

DeniableArc · Oct 16, 2020

Jay Hemdal said:
No, but I have a certain technique that I personally like, where the background is underexposed/black. I can only get that with a flash. The attached tuskfish image was taken with a remote flash top down, and me shooting 90 degrees to that.

Geez that’s a top photo mate

Jay Hemdal · Oct 16, 2020

DeniableArc said:
Geez that’s a top photo mate

Thanks, but that's about the only good one I've ever taken (grin). I am terrible at photography, I just don't have the patience to set shots up properly...

Jay

The_Skrimp · Oct 16, 2020

I’m sure it has an affect on them to an extent but then again my lights come with a “storm” setting that causes all kinds of lighting flashes so i can’t imagine the flash of a camera being any more stressful than that.

DeniableArc · Oct 16, 2020

Jay Hemdal said:
Thanks, but that's about the only good one I've ever taken (grin). I am terrible at photography, I just don't have the patience to set shots up properly...

Jay

I had not thought of flash from the top and photo from the front that’s way beyond my camera skills. The best photos I have are from a Olympus tg5 taken under water

vetteguy53081 · Oct 16, 2020

I find it no different than lightning mode in certain lights.
I personally place a piece of electrical tape over the flash. Remove after pics

Steph1 · Oct 16, 2020

Hmm.........I had a light which had a lightning facility. I would put on some thundrstorm sound on my stereo with a subwoofer turn the lights off in my room and watch a mini storm in my tank..........so cool and fun. Thing is, fish experience this in nature all the time during storms. Just my thoughts.