Needed the flash, not enough available light, but filters clipped the flash burst causing hard shadows... I did not have my off camera flash set-up. I had a blank sheet of 4x6 photo paper in my camera bag. Used it the best I could to reflect my flash to fill the shadow before he hopped out of view... have a few hot spots. Wish I had a macro ring flash. Because of the close up filter, no DOF to speak of. Did not crop this image, resize and frame in PS from 5.2 megpix TIF. Thanks for viewing and your comments...Bill