Saint Patrick With Back Lighting
This is a Saint Patrick rose from our garden.
Lighting stuff: To backlight this (in order to make the petals glow), I positioned a Strobie 130 in a Rogue grid (to tightly focus the light) behind the flower at camera left at 11 o'clock. Fill light came from a YN560-II in a 24 inch softbox, camera right at 5 o'clock. Both strobes in manual mode were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N. I put my strobes in manual mode for the same reason that I put my camera in manual mode ---- so that I, and not some engineer at Nikon or Canon, make the artistic decision about the amount of light of my subject. I always setup and test my strobes one at a time. For this image, once I got the backlighting adjusted the way I wanted it, I added the fill light and adjusted it until it looked right. Sometimes it will take me 7 or 8 test shots to balance the two or three lights to my tastes. There are times when TTL flash and auto setting are called for, but for situations where there are no time pressures I think manual is the way to go. As an added benefit, manual strobes are orders of magnitude cheaper than TTL strobes. I have three expensive Nikon strobes that I seldom ever use. On those rare occasions that I need TTL, the Nikon flashes are great, but generally that's not the kind of photography I do. The last Yongnuo flash I bought was less than $55, and it's a great flash that has survived multiple drops onto hard tile floors. The controls on the Yongnuo strobes are simple, and intuitively easy to use. The menus on the Nikon strobes are an embarrassment.
Other picture that I've taken of roses can be seen in my Roses set if you like this sort of thing. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157624084160734/
Saint Patrick With Back Lighting
This is a Saint Patrick rose from our garden.
Lighting stuff: To backlight this (in order to make the petals glow), I positioned a Strobie 130 in a Rogue grid (to tightly focus the light) behind the flower at camera left at 11 o'clock. Fill light came from a YN560-II in a 24 inch softbox, camera right at 5 o'clock. Both strobes in manual mode were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N. I put my strobes in manual mode for the same reason that I put my camera in manual mode ---- so that I, and not some engineer at Nikon or Canon, make the artistic decision about the amount of light of my subject. I always setup and test my strobes one at a time. For this image, once I got the backlighting adjusted the way I wanted it, I added the fill light and adjusted it until it looked right. Sometimes it will take me 7 or 8 test shots to balance the two or three lights to my tastes. There are times when TTL flash and auto setting are called for, but for situations where there are no time pressures I think manual is the way to go. As an added benefit, manual strobes are orders of magnitude cheaper than TTL strobes. I have three expensive Nikon strobes that I seldom ever use. On those rare occasions that I need TTL, the Nikon flashes are great, but generally that's not the kind of photography I do. The last Yongnuo flash I bought was less than $55, and it's a great flash that has survived multiple drops onto hard tile floors. The controls on the Yongnuo strobes are simple, and intuitively easy to use. The menus on the Nikon strobes are an embarrassment.
Other picture that I've taken of roses can be seen in my Roses set if you like this sort of thing. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157624084160734/