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The beauty of having a black background is that if you have any distracting elements in the photo, you can just paint them out with black in Photoshop. Lit with one hand held SB600 in a snoot in front of the flowers at about 5 o'clock, triggered by the pop up flash on my D90 in commander mode.. I always use manual mode on the strobe for these flower pics and adjust the levels until I like the way it looks.
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 light with off camera flash. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628079460544/...
Saint Martin's Island, Bangladesh, 2011.
O Wonder.....
I loved the land, so I belong to her in this life.
But in the next life, I'll be yours.
I'll born again as your endless waves.
Captured from St. Martin's Island, Bangladesh.
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J'ai souhaité dans ce portrait quelque chose qui me ramène aux peintres du XVIIIe siècle. La lumière accroche les cheveux roux, glisse sur le satin, s’arrête sur les gants pourpres… puis tout disparaît dans le noir.J’aime ce contraste entre l’élégance presque théâtrale de la scène et l’attitude de Maryam, songeuse, un peu ailleurs... Les bougies sont là, mais elles n’éclairent pas vraiment ses pensées. C’est un portrait où j’ai pris plaisir à travailler la lumière, à laisser les ombres garder leur part de mystère...
EN I wished in this portrait something that brings me back to the painters of the 18th century. The light hangs the red hair, slides on the satin, stops on the purple gloves... then everything disappears in the dark. I like this contrast between the almost theatrical elegance of the scene and Maryam's attitude, thoughtful, a little elsewhere... The candles are there, but they don't really light up his thoughts. It is a portrait where I enjoyed working the light, letting the shadows keep their share of mystery...
Seated in a chamber of opulence, she commands the gaze with an emerald gown that cascades like living flame. Draped fabric and jeweled embellishments crown her form, while the cape-like shoulders evoke both regality and myth. The dim glow of the lamp, the green walls, and the red roses at her side create a tableau of contrast—luxury and intimacy, shadow and brilliance. Her bold makeup and crimson lips sharpen the drama, transforming the room into a stage where elegance becomes power, and presence becomes legend.
“Emerald Throne”
She does not sit—
she reigns,
the chair beneath her
a throne carved from shadow and velvet breath.
Her gown is a river of green fire,
draped and jeweled,
a garment that remembers
the forests of myth,
the crowns of forgotten queens.
The roses lean toward her,
as if summoned,
their crimson mouths
confessing devotion in silence.
The lamp burns low,
but her presence is the brighter flame—
a sovereign of dusk,
a keeper of thresholds,
a myth written in emerald and blood-red light.
And we, who behold her,
are not mere witnesses,
but pilgrims at her altar,
gathering the fragments of her radiance
to carry into our own darkened rooms.
There’s defiance in the eye, but also fatigue. A single glance cuts through the fabric of the hood, the curve of the hand, and the unspoken weight behind them. This is not a pose—it’s a pause. A moment of shielding, but not surrender. The lines on the forehead speak of stories lived. The hoodie, the hand, the tension in the grip—they all become armor. But the eye doesn’t lie. This portrait captures what it means to be guarded yet present, distant but still watching.
Organization: Tim Engle
Photography and Editing: Dirk Dreyer.
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Equestrian statue of Francis Rákóczi II in Kossuth Lajos Square by the Hungarian parliament in Budapest.
Photography and Editing: Dirk Dreyer. Hi-Res pictures and prints available at galleries.dreyerpictures.com
Summer Sunset ~ Florida Everglades U.S.A.
South Florida ~ Palm Beach County, Florida
6-Shot Summer Sun Set ~ Quarta Sunset 283
(five more photos of this night in the comments)
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"Blue Bayou" - Linda Ronstadt - Live 1977
Photography and Editing: Dirk Dreyer. Hi-Res pictures and prints available at galleries.dreyerpictures.com
Organization: Creative Light Photography
Il n’y a rien autour d’elle. Pas de décor, pas de scène, pas de public. Juste un instant construit en studio, quelques gestes, et cette lumière qui vient chercher la danseuse comme on cherche quelqu’un dans une pièce silencieuse. Elle ne danse peut-être pas encore. Elle est simplement là, entre deux mouvements, dans cette seconde où le corps cesse de bouger mais où tout reste vivant.
Le rouge enveloppe le reste.
EN There is nothing around her.
No scenery, no stage, no audience. Just a moment created in the studio, a few gestures, and a beam of light finding the dancer as if searching for someone in a quiet room. Perhaps she isn't dancing yet. She is simply there, caught between two movements, in that brief second when the body stops but everything remains alive. The red holds everything else.
A moody, low-light seascape captures the quiet drama of a beach at dusk or dawn, where gentle waves roll onto a dark, wet shore under a heavy, overcast sky. The horizon glows with a faint, diffused light, creating a stark contrast with the shadowed foreground and lending the scene a contemplative, almost somber atmosphere. The composition is minimalist, focusing on the textures of the water and sand and the vast, empty expanse of the sky.
This past weekend I was fortunate enough to attend a workshop put on by the Arizona Professional Photographer's Association at the Canyon Creek Ranch in Arizona. There were a series of workshops put on to teach us various techniques for lighting in different scenarios using all different methods of providing light. This workshop provided the models, the settings and the instructors to show us appropriate lighting for different scenarios.
This shot was from a lesson put on by one of the instructors, Bob Coates, who was demonstrating lighting using continuous LED lights and modifiers which were provided by Westcott Lighting. The model's name is Jerry Thomas. The advantages of LED lighting are that you see what you're getting in real time. The disadvantages are that the lights are not as strong as regular flashes, so you end up using higher iso's, but with today's camera sensors, higher ISO's are not so much of a problem as they used to be. In this shot a large softbox with a grid was positioned at camera left and above the model, but the participants could see what the lighting results were before taking the shot. I used NIK software's Silver Efex Pro 2 to convert my image to black and white.
Other images that I took during the day long workshop at Canyon Creek Ranch are in my Canyon Creek Ranch Album.
www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157659532479014
Other portraits that I've taken, either by design or by luck, are in my creatively titled Portrait album.
www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157661525864981
Other black and white images that I've attempted can be seen in my creatively named Black And White Album.
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Althought some people might be tired of sunrises/sunsets, I believe that it is the most dramatic part of the day, therefore I've decided to post another photo that was taken during this time of a day. Colors of this sunset remind me more of painting than photo. I've chosen this composition where the silhouette is very small and give lot of space to the sky/nature, which is exactly how it is in Mongolia - vast areas of nature and pure nothing.
This photo with amazing sky was taken in Ongiin Khiid monastery. The ruined monastery lies in two halfs on the banks of the Ongiin river. It was destroyed by the communist purges of the thirties and is being restored by a number of monks. It is an amazing site and stretches across the valley in the mountainous area around the river. There is not much left from the original place therefore I was happy to capture that beautiful sunset with the silhouette of pavilion.
Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL, f/8, 0.008 sec (1/125), ISO 400, 59 mm
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FR Le soleil éclate au-dessus des nuages comme une étoile suspendue. En dessous, l’enseigne du métro veille, humble et familière, gardienne des départs et des retrouvailles. À Paris, même les chemins souterrains commencent par un peu de ciel.
EN The sun bursts above the clouds like a suspended star. Below, the metro sign stands quietly, a familiar guardian of departures and reunions. In Paris, even underground journeys begin with a touch of sky.
In a break from my normal type of Imagery, I spent a few days out in London trying out some street photography.
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Talk about a day of contrasts! One minute its bright, next minute its chucking it down. Some quite spectacular lighting created by this bright interval even as the heavy rain falls.
Still working on this nice sunset... incorporated many different foreground elements and angles... was a fun summer night.
South Florida ~ Palm Beach County ~ Florida Everglades U.S.A.
(five more photos from 'this night' in the comments)
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I really thought a reddish background against the reddish outfit would be a mistake. Well, with processing in Lightroom, the colors blend quite well.
A long-exposure view of Tower Bridge, London, looking straight into the tower as the city rushes by.
Red and white traffic trails slice through the frame while the suspension lines and railings pull the eye toward the arch. The wet walkway adds subtle reflections, and the lamps bloom into starbursts against the night sky—classic London drama, just after dark.
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A particularly vivid rainbow made more dramatic by a dark sky background drops onto East Shaws Farm. Westwick. Teesdale