Sculpted By Light
This is the first of our German Bearded Iris in our garden to bloom this spring, so I thought that it deserved a truly pretentious title,
Lighting stuff: I combined two different types of lighting in this image to get the look that I wanted. I wanted the upper petals to glow so I back light them with a YN560-III in a Rogue grid behind and to camera left. I wanted side lighting as the main light because I wanted to show the shapes of the petals, so I placed a YN560 in a 24 inch soft box at camera right. The strobes in manual mode were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N. I took over 30 shots to get it looking just the way I wanted by varying the power and direction of the lights.
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
Other Iris pictures that I've taken can be seen here. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157623861858581/...
Sculpted By Light
This is the first of our German Bearded Iris in our garden to bloom this spring, so I thought that it deserved a truly pretentious title,
Lighting stuff: I combined two different types of lighting in this image to get the look that I wanted. I wanted the upper petals to glow so I back light them with a YN560-III in a Rogue grid behind and to camera left. I wanted side lighting as the main light because I wanted to show the shapes of the petals, so I placed a YN560 in a 24 inch soft box at camera right. The strobes in manual mode were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N. I took over 30 shots to get it looking just the way I wanted by varying the power and direction of the lights.
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
Other Iris pictures that I've taken can be seen here. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157623861858581/...