Snake Dance
The photo club that I belong to, Polyphoto in San Diego, had a workshop this morning devoted to "negative space". The purpose was to help the members get an understanding of the concept for an upcoming competition on, you guessed it, negative space. As I understand it, negative space in an image helps to emphasize the positive shapes in an image, thereby drawing attention to interesting shapes and colors. I may not have fully understood the concept, but I came home and created this using an old pot of Icelandic Poppies, which I've been exploiting for some time, and a couple of strobes. I also used the Photoshop liquify tool to add some interesting (I hope) shaped curves to the picture.
Strobist info: One SB600 in a snoot behind the plant at about 11 o'clock for backlighting, and a SB700 in a softbox in front, camera left at 7 o'clock to throw a little light on the front of the plant. The strobes were in manual mode, and I adjusted the output until I got the results I liked. The strobes were triggered by the pop up flash on my D90 in commander mode.
Other plants and flowers that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my strobe lit plant set. In the description, I list resources that I've used to learn how to do this. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628079460544/...
Snake Dance
The photo club that I belong to, Polyphoto in San Diego, had a workshop this morning devoted to "negative space". The purpose was to help the members get an understanding of the concept for an upcoming competition on, you guessed it, negative space. As I understand it, negative space in an image helps to emphasize the positive shapes in an image, thereby drawing attention to interesting shapes and colors. I may not have fully understood the concept, but I came home and created this using an old pot of Icelandic Poppies, which I've been exploiting for some time, and a couple of strobes. I also used the Photoshop liquify tool to add some interesting (I hope) shaped curves to the picture.
Strobist info: One SB600 in a snoot behind the plant at about 11 o'clock for backlighting, and a SB700 in a softbox in front, camera left at 7 o'clock to throw a little light on the front of the plant. The strobes were in manual mode, and I adjusted the output until I got the results I liked. The strobes were triggered by the pop up flash on my D90 in commander mode.
Other plants and flowers that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my strobe lit plant set. In the description, I list resources that I've used to learn how to do this. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628079460544/...