New Year's Daffodils
This is the first of our daffodils to bloom this year so I decided to exploit it.
Lighting info: I wanted to emphasize the luminous qualities of the petals, so I backlit them by placing a Strobie130 in a Rogue grid behind the flower at camera right. Fill light came from a YN560-II in a 24 inch softbox at camera right and a small hand mirror at camera left. I decided on a blue background for contrast with the yellow in the flowers, so I put a blue gel over a YN560 and pointed it at a roll of gray background paper behind the flowers. All 3 strobes, in manual mode, were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N. In post, I applied paint filter to give a little bit of texture to the blue background.
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 Daffodils
This is the first of our daffodils to bloom this year so I decided to exploit it.
Lighting info: I wanted to emphasize the luminous qualities of the petals, so I backlit them by placing a Strobie130 in a Rogue grid behind the flower at camera right. Fill light came from a YN560-II in a 24 inch softbox at camera right and a small hand mirror at camera left. I decided on a blue background for contrast with the yellow in the flowers, so I put a blue gel over a YN560 and pointed it at a roll of gray background paper behind the flowers. All 3 strobes, in manual mode, were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N. In post, I applied paint filter to give a little bit of texture to the blue background.
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