New Year's Day Snapdragon Flower
I was surprised to find this flower blooming in a pot outside on a cool and frosty morning, and rushed it inside immediately to exploit. It's a pretty small flower, and I positioned my macro lens below it in order to look up at it in hopes of making it more impressive and heroic. The few, the proud the snapdragons...... but I digress.
I wanted to show the luminous qualities of the flower and make it glow so I placed a Strobie 130 fitted with a Rogue grid above and in back of it. Fill light came from a YN560-II in a 24 inch soft box, in front and to camera right. The strobes were in manual mode and were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
I've taken a lot of flower pictures because they're cooperative models that take direction well and work cheap. 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
New Year's Day Snapdragon Flower
I was surprised to find this flower blooming in a pot outside on a cool and frosty morning, and rushed it inside immediately to exploit. It's a pretty small flower, and I positioned my macro lens below it in order to look up at it in hopes of making it more impressive and heroic. The few, the proud the snapdragons...... but I digress.
I wanted to show the luminous qualities of the flower and make it glow so I placed a Strobie 130 fitted with a Rogue grid above and in back of it. Fill light came from a YN560-II in a 24 inch soft box, in front and to camera right. The strobes were in manual mode and were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
I've taken a lot of flower pictures because they're cooperative models that take direction well and work cheap. 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