Iris In The Spotlight
The photo club I belong to in San Diego, Polyphoto Club, is having a competition this month in which the theme is "illumination". I wanted to show a beam of light and I experimented outside in the garden with putting light from a strobe through dust or water. All I did was make a mess. I did a search on line for creating a beam of light, and there are quite a few videos. I looked at one, and decided to play around with Photoshop to create one. Not a brilliant first effort, but not completely hopeless.
I lit this with a YN560-III in a Rogue grid positioned at camera left and above the flower. This gave me light that was tightly focused on the flower. The flash was in manual mode and was triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N. The cheesy beam of light came from Photoshop.
Other Iris pictures that I've taken can be seen here. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157623861858581/...
Other plants, flowers, fruit or thingys that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant set. In the description for that set, I list resources that I've used to learn how to light with off camera flash, and the equipment that I use. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628079460544/
Iris In The Spotlight
The photo club I belong to in San Diego, Polyphoto Club, is having a competition this month in which the theme is "illumination". I wanted to show a beam of light and I experimented outside in the garden with putting light from a strobe through dust or water. All I did was make a mess. I did a search on line for creating a beam of light, and there are quite a few videos. I looked at one, and decided to play around with Photoshop to create one. Not a brilliant first effort, but not completely hopeless.
I lit this with a YN560-III in a Rogue grid positioned at camera left and above the flower. This gave me light that was tightly focused on the flower. The flash was in manual mode and was triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N. The cheesy beam of light came from Photoshop.
Other Iris pictures that I've taken can be seen here. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157623861858581/...
Other plants, flowers, fruit or thingys that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant set. In the description for that set, I list resources that I've used to learn how to light with off camera flash, and the equipment that I use. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628079460544/