Looking Down On Naked Ladies
I photographed this flowers from above with the camera pointed down at the top of them. The flowers are growing up against a granite boulder and next to a fig tree on our property, and I brought them inside to photograph where it's easier to control the light. In researching this flower I learned that it has many names including "Naked Ladies". "Belladona Lilly" and "Belladonna Amaryllis". The first time I posted a picture of these flowers back in August of 2013 I titled them Naked Ladies, and they became, and have remained, my most viewed image on Flickr. Currently that picture has over 200,000 views. The following year I photographed the 2014 version of the flowers and they became my second most viewed image on Flickr with over 160,000 views. Since then, people have gotten over the name and they receive normal view numbers when I photograph them every summer. This is one of the 2018 versions.
Lighting stuff: I first placed the flowers in a vase on top of a piece of black Perspex. This was a two light setup using Yongnuo strobes in 24 inch soft boxes. The strobes were positioned on either side of the flowers and were pointed down aimed at the top The strobes and my tripod mounted camera were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N trigger.
I've photographed a lot of plants and flowers, because they're all around us, work cheap, and never complain. I have an album of these images with over 1200 pictures, and for each one, I have described how I lit them, in case you're interested in that kind of thing.
Looking Down On Naked Ladies
I photographed this flowers from above with the camera pointed down at the top of them. The flowers are growing up against a granite boulder and next to a fig tree on our property, and I brought them inside to photograph where it's easier to control the light. In researching this flower I learned that it has many names including "Naked Ladies". "Belladona Lilly" and "Belladonna Amaryllis". The first time I posted a picture of these flowers back in August of 2013 I titled them Naked Ladies, and they became, and have remained, my most viewed image on Flickr. Currently that picture has over 200,000 views. The following year I photographed the 2014 version of the flowers and they became my second most viewed image on Flickr with over 160,000 views. Since then, people have gotten over the name and they receive normal view numbers when I photograph them every summer. This is one of the 2018 versions.
Lighting stuff: I first placed the flowers in a vase on top of a piece of black Perspex. This was a two light setup using Yongnuo strobes in 24 inch soft boxes. The strobes were positioned on either side of the flowers and were pointed down aimed at the top The strobes and my tripod mounted camera were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N trigger.
I've photographed a lot of plants and flowers, because they're all around us, work cheap, and never complain. I have an album of these images with over 1200 pictures, and for each one, I have described how I lit them, in case you're interested in that kind of thing.