Reflecting On A Pink Gebera Daisy
Picked this morning in the garden.
Lighting stuff. Flickr member Malcolm Gardner was kind enough to tell me about black perspex for photographing subjects on when you want a black background, and a little bit of - or no -reflection, and this is my first experience with using it. It doesn't provide as much reflection as a mirror, but does give a clean black background and a bit of reflection. I can see from my brief trial that' I'll be using it again. I placed the flower on the black perspex, and the light came from a YN560-III in a 24 inch soft box at camera left at 9 o'clock and about 5 inches from the flower. I used a small hand mirror to bounce a little light on to the right side of the subject. The flash, in manual mode was triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N. There was less cleanup in post afterward than if I had used a mirror.
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
Reflecting On A Pink Gebera Daisy
Picked this morning in the garden.
Lighting stuff. Flickr member Malcolm Gardner was kind enough to tell me about black perspex for photographing subjects on when you want a black background, and a little bit of - or no -reflection, and this is my first experience with using it. It doesn't provide as much reflection as a mirror, but does give a clean black background and a bit of reflection. I can see from my brief trial that' I'll be using it again. I placed the flower on the black perspex, and the light came from a YN560-III in a 24 inch soft box at camera left at 9 o'clock and about 5 inches from the flower. I used a small hand mirror to bounce a little light on to the right side of the subject. The flash, in manual mode was triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N. There was less cleanup in post afterward than if I had used a mirror.
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