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Still playing with my food.
Lighting: I wanted soft light for this so I used 2 YN560-III's in identical 24 inch soft boxes on either side of the cutting board and pointing down at the peppers. The strobes, in manual mode, were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Other still life images that I've attempted are in my Still Life album. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157635247182331/
I picked this flower from the garden on yesterday and brought it indoors to photograph where it's easier to control the light.
Lighting: This was a 3 light setup using Yongnuo flashes. I positioned two flashes in front in 24 inch soft boxes placed on either side of the flower and a third flash in a Rogue grid, hand held in back of the flower at camera left for back lighting. The strobes and my tripod mounted camera were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N.
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.
www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628079460544
Other pictures that I've taken of Birds of Paradise flowers can be seen in my cleverly titled Birds of Paradise album.
I used side lighting on these snapdragons because that creates the shadows that reveal shapes and textures. I lit it with one Yongnuo flash in a 24 inch gridded soft box at camera right and just out of the frame. The flash was in manual mode and at full power. Fill light is from a hand held mirror at camera left. The flash and my tripod mounted camera were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N.
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 flower 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.
This is a shell that I brought back from Baja California, Mexico at least seven years ago. I couldn't always catch big fish, but I could always find shell to light and photograph.
Lighting is from a pair of Yongnuo manual strobes in 8.6 inch Lastolite soft boxes positioned on either side of the shell and pointed at the center. The two strobes and my tripod mounted camera were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Other plants, flowers, fruit or thingys that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Objects album. For each image in the set, and there are over 2000 of them, I describe how I set up the lighting for that particular shot. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628079460544/
Other picture of shells that I've posted on Flick can be seen in my Shells album: www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157626043932290
My wife brought home a Croton Codiaeum plant recently, and the leaves on it are beautiful and a variety of different colors.
I set the leaf down on a piece of black Perspex and then lit it using a manual Yongnuo flash in a 24 inch soft box at camera right and just out of the frame. I hand held a small mirror at camera left for fill light. I used side lighting because that creates the shadows that reveal shapes and textures. The flash and my tripod mounted camera were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N.
I find leaves to be beautiful objects from nature and have an album creative titled Leaves with over 70 images in it.
www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157649845311287
Other plants, flowers, fruit or thingys that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant set. For each image in the set, and there are over 1400 of them, I describe how I set up the lighting for that particular shot. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628079460544/
I found this flower last month growing alongside the road in our rural neighborhood, and brought it home to photograph where it's easier to control the light.
Lighting: Lit with a Yongnuo flash in an 8.6 inch Lastolite soft box hand held at camera left, and just out of the frame. Fill light came from a hand held mirror at camera right. The flash and my tripod mounted camera were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Other black and white images that I've created can be seen in my Black And White album.
www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157644989606939
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.
This is an old sea shell that I brought home from Bahia De Los Angeles in Baja California, Mexico.
Lighting: I propped this up on a piece of black Perspex, and then lit it with a Yongnuo manual flash in an 8.6 inch Lastoite soft box positioned at camera left. Fill light is from a hand held mirror at camera right. The flash and my tripod mounted camera were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Other plants, flowers, fruit or thingys that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Objects set. For each image in the set, and there are over 1900 of them, I describe how I set up the lighting for that particular shot. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628079460544/
Other shells that I've photographed can be seen in my creatively named Shell album, and there are over.
I love the shape of these lilies and find them to be excellent photographic subjects.
I first placed the flower on a piece of black Perspex and then lit it with one manual Yongnuo flash in a 24 inch gridded soft box at camera right and just out of the frame. Fill light came from a small hand held mirror at camera left. The flash and camera were both triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N. I converted the image to black and white using NIK Software's Silver Efex Pro 2.0.
Other plants, flowers, fruit or thingys that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant set. For each image in the set, and there are over 1400 of them, I describe how I set up the lighting for that particular shot. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628079460544/.
Other black and white images that I've attempted can be seen in my Black And White Album.
www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157644989606939/
Other calla pictures that I've played with can be seen in my creatively titled Calla Lily album.
This is the cut up version of the pomegranate that I picked today and brought inside to cut up and eat. My previous Flickr post is the whole pomegranate which you can also see down in the first comment.
Lighting: I lit this using two yongnuo strobes in 24 inch soft boxes placed on either side of the cut up fruit, which is on a piece of black Perspex. The strobes, in manual mode, were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Playing with my food again. I get an interesting (to me, anyway) subject, and when I'm done, we get to eat it. I can't do that with hummingbirds.
I wanted to show shapes and textures, and that is accomplished with side lighting. The main light was a YN560-III at camera left in an 8.6 inch Lastolite soft box. I tried to place it so that the light would skim across the front surface. I then placed another YN560-III in a Rogue grid behind the pepper at camera right so that I could skim light across the right side. The strobes, in manual mode, were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Other still life pictures that I've taken are in my creatively named Still Life set.
This is another of my wife's epiphyllum flowers, and this one bloomed today.
Lighting: Back lighting from a Yongnuo strobe in a Rogue grid behind the flower at camera right. Fill light came from another yongnuo strobe in a 24 inch gridded soft box at camera left pointing towards the center. The strobes, in manual mode, were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Over the years, I've taken quite a few "Epi" pictures, and they're in my Epiphyllum Flowers album, if you like that sort of thing.
www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157680754580643
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 800 pictures, and for each one, I have described how I lit them, in case you're interested in that kind of thing.
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I intended this self portrait to be as the way jazz musicians in the 50's and 60's presented themselves. Confident, capable and stylish. It's more fantasy than reality I'm afraid.
: Sometimes it feels that you are just nothing and everybody else is better...
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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
This is an abalone shell that's been hanging out in the garden, that I brought inside to photograph where it's easier to control the light. Forty years ago, or so, when they were more plentiful we used to dive for them off of the southern California coast. Now they're endangered, and diving for them is prohibited in Southern California. This shell is pretty weathered and doesn't have the full range of colors that it did back in the day. Down below in the first comment you can see a picture I took 10 years ago that was in better condition and more colorful than this one.
Lighting: I lit the shell with two Yongnuo strobes in 24 inch soft boxes placed on either side of the shell. The strobes, in manual mode, were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Other shells that I have photographed over the years are in my creatively titled Shells album. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157626043932290
A friend and I were playing around with lighting today and decided to see what we could do with this scallop shell.
We placed the shell on a mirror, standing up and leaning against a glass block to keep it propped up. In post processing, in Photoshop, I used the black paintbrush to paint anything that wasn't part of the shell, pure black. Lighting was from a hand held Yongnuo flash in an 8.6 inch Lastolite soft box at camera right and just out of the frame. Fill light came from a mirror at camera left. The flash, in manual mode, was triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Other shells that I have photographed over the years are in my creatively titled Shells album. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157626043932290
This is a shell that I brought back from Baja California, Mexico at least seven years ago. I couldn't always catch big fish, but I could always find shell to light and photograph.
Lighting is from a pair of Yongnuo manual strobes in 8.6 inch Lastolite soft boxes positioned on either side of the shell and pointed at the center. The two strobes and my tripod mounted camera were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Other plants, flowers, fruit or thingys that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Objects album. For each image in the set, and there are over 2000 of them, I describe how I set up the lighting for that particular shot. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628079460544/
Other picture of shells that I've posted on Flick can be seen in my Shells album: www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157626043932290
My sister does a good job of growing these beautiful flowers, so I brought a bunch home recently to play with.
Lighting stuff: Simple one light setup using a Yongnuo flash in a 24 inch soft box at camera left just out of the frame. Fill light came from a hand mirror at camera right. The flash and my tripod mounted camera were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Other pictures that I've taken of Birds of Paradise flowers can be seen in my cleverly titled Birds of Paradise album.
www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157631967781801
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 1100 pictures, and for each one, I have described how I lit them, in case you're interested in that kind of thing.
This poor tulip is a little past it's prime, but I think it still has some appeal (at least to me).
Lighting: Lit with one Yongnuo strobe in a 24 inch soft box at camera left and just out of the frame. I used camera settings that caused the background to go dark, and where there was spillover I used the black paintbrush in Photoshop. The flash and my tripod mounted camera were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N.
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 1100 pictures, and for each one, I have described how I lit them, in case you're interested in that kind of thing.
When the weather is not too great and you still want to play with your camera indoors. Experimenting with Splash Photography. Good Fun!
The main light was a Yongnuo strobe in a 24 inch gridded soft box at camera left. Fill light was an identical flash in a 24 inch soft box at camera left. The strobes, in manual mode, were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
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 800 pictures, and for each one, I have described how I lit them, in case you're interested in that kind of thing.
I used a 580EX II as master to trigger a 430EX behind the plexiglass in manual mode. The 430EX was set to 1/4th power. The black sheets to the left and right increased the contrast of the contour while the high speed sync cancelled out ambient light.
An annotated setup shot is available here.
My wife volunteers at our local library teaching craft classes. This is for a project she's working up, so I volunteered to document it for her.
Lighting stuff: I first placed this on a piece of black Perspex. This was a one light setup using a Yongnuo flash in a 24 inch soft box at camera left. Fill light was from a mirror at camera right. The flash, and my tripod mounted camera, were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Other still life pictures that I've attempted are in my creatively titled Still Life album.
This succulent head was picked from the garden today so I could bring it indoors where it's easier to control the light.
Lighting stuff: I first placed the subject on a piece of black Perspex so that I would have a minimal reflection. The main light was a Yongnuo strobe in a 24 inch gridded soft box at camera right. Fill light came from a hand held mirror at camera left. The strobe and my tripod mounted camera were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Other succulent and cactus pictures that I've taken can be seen in my creatively titled Cactus and Succulents album.
www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157633383093236
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.
I cut these flowers from the garden this afternoon, and brought them indoors to photograph where it's easier to control the light.
Lighting info: Lit with a Yongnuo manual strobes in 8.6 inch Lastolite soft boxes positioned in front of the flowers on either side and pointing and the center to get balanced, even lighting. The strobes and my tripod mounted camera were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Other plants, flowers, fruit or thingys that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Objects album. For each image in the set, and there are over 2000 of them, I describe how I set up the lighting for that particular shot. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628079460544/
This is a large leaf (bigger than my hand) that I found at my sister's, and brought home to exploit. I like the shapes and textures, and lit it to emphasize those characteristics.
Lighting stuff: I used side lighting here to create the shadows that reveal shapes and textures. The light was a YN560-III in a 24 inch soft box at camera right, and very close to the leaf. Fill light came from a small mirror at camera left. The flash, in manual mode was triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
I find leaves to be beautiful and have an album of leaf pictures.
I saw these petals on the pavement today, and thought that they would make a good subject. I think they're from a vinca plant.
Lighting stuff: Side lighting from one YN560-III in a 24 inch soft box at camera left at 9 o'clock. Fill light came from a small hand mirror at camera right. The flash, in manual mode, was triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
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
I wanted to emphasize the shapes, curves and textures in this magnolia leaf so I lit it from the side. Side lighting creates the shadows that reveal textures and shapes.
Lighting info: I placed the leaf so that it's back side was facing up, and then lit it with a Yongnuo Flash in an 8.6 inch hand-held soft box at camera right. The flash, and my tripod mounted camera, were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N.
I find that when I take the time to actually look at leaves, they are often quite beautiful. I've taken enough leaf pictures to put them in an album, and if your interested you can see it here.
www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/7215764984531128...
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 1100 pictures, and for each one, I have described how I lit them, in case you're interested in that kind of thing.
We have almost no flowers in bloom right now in our garden, so I brought this little succulent stalk inside to exploit. It at least had buds.
I put a YN560 with a Rogue grid behind the stalk at camera left to provide a little back lighting and then used a YN560-III in a 24 inch soft box at camera right for a little fill light. The strobes, in manual mode, were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
I'm proud to say i'm a Virgo ;) !
Born in August 28..
Ok this is not why i took this pic .. lol..
This picture is a SPecial Dedication for A Dear Friend of mine Truth Hurts .. "Yeah Couldn't Wait 1 more week ..!" .. hehe
I want to say to You: Kel 3am Wnty B Alf Kheir Moqadaman ... I couldn't wait coz i didn't want anyone to say Happy Birthday TO YOU :) !! . I Wanted to Be The First One To say it ..! So.. Happy Birthday Ya Aghla Ensana 3ndy :** ..
You're a TRUE Diamond! a Rare Friend So hard to find, I don't want to say that I FOUND U .. i'd love to say we found each other ;) !! ..
Love the time we share together, the late night chats, the laughs, the talks, the mood swings we get and yet we laugh about them.. Most, I love spending my entire time just talking to you coz u're an easy person to talk to..
In My mind i've created the most wonderful memories with You.. and i'm sure i'm going to have more of those.. which i'll be charishing forever ;)...
Allah La Ya7remny Menich Yal Ghalya.. Wla Yakhleny Mn Galbech El 6ayyeb ;***
O 3asa Ya Rab Dayem Ashofich Teth7eken coz When You Smile and Laugh The whole world laugh with YOU :) .. Beleive me coz i've seen u Laugh and let me say i saw the whole world shines ;) !! ..
Kel 3am wnty Bkheir 1 Week Early :**
Love You ALOT Sweety :***
Virgo Traits:
Positive: Modest, shy, reliable, practical, tidy, analytical, self-sufficient, diligent.
Negative: Fussy, overcritical, cold, worrisome, harsh, conventional, perfectionist, hypochondriac.
In Love: Devoted, uninhibited, protective.
Judgmental, compulsive, overcritical.
Occupations:Personal assistant, editor, proofreader, accountant "what do u KNOW! loooL I AM an Accountant lol!" , dental hygienist, computer analyst, contractor.
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Camera: Nikon D300
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Aperture: f/3.5
Focal Length: 60 mm
ISO Speed: 220
Exposure Bias: 0/6 EV
Lens: AF-S Micro Nikkor 60mm f/2.8G Ed
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My wife found these flowers when she was out and about and brought them home for me to play with.
Lighting: Lit from the side using a Yongnuo flash in a 24 inch gridded soft box positioned at camera right and just out of the frame. Fill light came from a small hand held mirror at camera left. I used side lighting because that creates the shadows that reveal shapes and textures. The flash and my tripod mounted camera were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N.
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.
A flower that my wife brought home for me to play with.
Lighting: I first placed the flower on a mirror and then used side lighting with a Yongnuo manual flash in an 8.6 Lastolite soft box hand held at camera left and just out of the frame. Fill light came from a second small mirror at camera right. The flash and my tripod mounted camera were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Other plants, flowers, fruit or stuff that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant set. For each image in the set, and there are over 1400 of them, I describe how I set up the lighting for that particular shot. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628079460544/