This came from our garden yesterday, and I'm lucky that the plant thrives on benign neglect. I find these to be among the most fun of the flowers, along with the callas, to light.

 

This is supposed to be all about backlighting, and I put a YN560 in a Rogue grid behind and to the left to light up the orange sepals, and used a YN560-III in a Honl snoot to the right side to light up the blue and orange sepals on the right. I then held a silver reflector on the right side to bounce a little bit of light onto that side so that it wouldn't be totally black. The strobes, in manual mode, were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N. I adjusted the output on the strobes until I got a look that I liked.

 

Other pictures I've taken of these flowers are in my Birds of Paradise set. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157631967781801/

 

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. www.flickr.com/photos/9422