Purple Rebloomer
A friend of mine from the Polyphoto Club in San Diego recently purchased some strobes, and as he had never worked with off camera flash before, we did a little mini workshop at my house. I had picked this rebloomer iris earlier in the day, and used this as a demonstration on one way that he could use off camera flash to light anything.
Lighting information: For the main light, I positioned one YN560-II in a 24 inch soft box at camera left and about 4 inches from the flower. For fill light, I used a large silver reflector at camera right. While this worked pretty well, it didn't show the white bits (a technical botanical term) in the center of the flower. To light the center I hand held a YN560 in a Rogue grid. The Rogue grid acts to limit where the light goes. Both strobes, and my tripod mounted camera, were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Other plants, flowers, fruit or thingys that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant album. In the description for that set, I list resources that I've used to learn how to light with off camera flash. www.flickr.com/photos/9422
Other Iris pictures that I've taken can be seen here. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157623861858581/...
Purple Rebloomer
A friend of mine from the Polyphoto Club in San Diego recently purchased some strobes, and as he had never worked with off camera flash before, we did a little mini workshop at my house. I had picked this rebloomer iris earlier in the day, and used this as a demonstration on one way that he could use off camera flash to light anything.
Lighting information: For the main light, I positioned one YN560-II in a 24 inch soft box at camera left and about 4 inches from the flower. For fill light, I used a large silver reflector at camera right. While this worked pretty well, it didn't show the white bits (a technical botanical term) in the center of the flower. To light the center I hand held a YN560 in a Rogue grid. The Rogue grid acts to limit where the light goes. Both strobes, and my tripod mounted camera, were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Other plants, flowers, fruit or thingys that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant album. In the description for that set, I list resources that I've used to learn how to light with off camera flash. www.flickr.com/photos/9422
Other Iris pictures that I've taken can be seen here. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157623861858581/...