Flash (photography)
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A flash is a device used in photography that produces a brief burst of light at a color temperature of about 5500 K to help illuminate a scene. The main purpose of a flash is to illuminate a dark scen
The high-speed wing action of a hummingbird hawk-moth is frozen by flash. The flash has given the foreground more illumination than the background. See Inverse-square law.
Demonstration of a magnesium flash powder lamp from 1909
Vintage AHA smokeless flash powder lamp kit, Germany
Ernst Leitz Wetzlar flash from 1950s
Hummingbird hawk-moth
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The hummingbird hawk-moth is a species of hawk moth found across temperate regions of Eurasia. The species is named for its similarity to hummingbirds, as they feed on the nectar of tube-shaped flower
Flash (photography)
…The high-speed wing action of a hummingbird hawk-moth is frozen by flash. The flash has given the foreground more illumination than the background. See Inverse-square law. Video demonstration of high-speed…
Hummingbird hawk moth in flight
Macroglossum stellatarum au repos summer 2006
Larva of Macroglossum stellatarum
Larva of Macroglossum stellatarum, Hampshire, UK, while on prepupational walkabout