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Picked from the garden this morning.
Lighting info: The back lighting was from a Yongnuo flash in a Rogue grid behind the flower at camera left. Front (and fill) lighting is from a second Yongnuo flash in a 24 inch gridded soft box at camera right. The strobes, in manual mode, 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.
From the garden this morning.
Lighting: I first placed the flower on a Piece of black Perspex. The main light was a Yongnuo flash in a 24 inch soft box at camera right, and fill light was provided by a hand held mirror at camera left. The back lighting is from another Yongnuo flash in a Rogue gird placed behind the flower. The strobes and my tripod mounted camera 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 900 pictures, and for each one, I have described how I lit them, in case you're interested in that kind of thing.
This is the same shell that I photographed a couple of days ago, and posted on Flickr. For that image I laid it flat and lit it from the side so that I could reveal the shapes and textures. You can see that version of the shell down below in the first comment.
For this version I wanted to show the translucent quality of the shell, and make it glow, by using back lighting. I propped the shell up by leaning it up against a clear glass shot glass. Lighting came from a YN560-II in a Rogue grid behind the shell, and slightly to camera right. The flash, in manual mode, was triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
I have photographed quite a few shells over the years, and if you like this sort of thing, they're in my creatively named Shells album. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157626043932290
From the garden this afternoon.
Lighting. The main light was a Yongnuo strobe in a 24 inch gridded soft box at camera left.. Back lighting came from a second Yongnuo strobe behind the flower at camera left. What little fill light there was, came from a small mirror at camera right. The strobes were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Other picture that I've taken of roses can be seen in my Roses set, if you like that sort of thing. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157624084160734/
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 can't identify this shell, but it's one my wife brought home from the store for me to play with, as I find sea shells to be beautiful objects from nature, and fun to try and light.
Lighting stuff: First I placed the shell on a piece of black Perspex. I wanted to make the translucent parts of the shell glow so I lit it from behind with a Yongnuo strobe in a Rogue grid. Fill light came from another Yongnuo strobe in a 24 inch soft box at camera left. I used the side lighting to create the shadows that reveal shapes and textures. The two strobes were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
I have quite a few sea shell pictures, and if you enjoy that sort of thing, they're in my Shells album.
This came from our garden yesterday, and I'm lucky that the plant thrives on benign neglect. I find these to be among the most fun of the flowers, along with the callas, to light.
This is supposed to be all about backlighting, and I put a YN560 in a Rogue grid behind and to the left to light up the orange sepals, and used a YN560-III in a Honl snoot to the right side to light up the blue and orange sepals on the right. I then held a silver reflector on the right side to bounce a little bit of light onto that side so that it wouldn't be totally black. The strobes, in manual mode, were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N. I adjusted the output on the strobes until I got a look that I liked.
Other pictures I've taken of these flowers are in my Birds of Paradise set. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157631967781801/
Other plants, flowers, fruit or thingys that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant set. 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 backlit this leaf in an attempt to make it glow.
Lighting stuff: Back lit with a Yongnuo YN560-III fitted with a Rogue grid. Because of the camera setting that I used, no ambient light in the room was exposed. The flash, in manual mode, was triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
I've long had a fascination with leaves that are lit from behind, and have put some pictures of them in an album, which you can see here, if you like that sort of thing.
Picked from the garden this afternoon and brought indoors where it's easier to control the light.
Lighting: The main light was a Yongnuo flash in a 24 inch soft box at camera left, fill light from a 2nd Yongnuo flash in another 24 inch soft box at camera right, and back lighting came from a third Yongnuo in a Rogue grid, hand held behind the flower 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 900 pictures, and for each one, I have described how I lit them, in case you're interested in that kind of thing.
I'm still exploiting the little plant I bought about 6 weeks ago. I believe that these are my favorite flower to light and photograph because of the elegant shapes. Some of the black and white photos I've seen that were done a long time ago by famous photographers are amazing works of art.
Lighting stuff: I placed a YN560 in a Rogue grid behind the flower and slightly to the right at 1 o'clock for backlighting, and used a YN560-III in an 8.6 inch Lastolite softbox in front and slightly to the left of center for fill. Both flashes, in manual mode, were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Other Calla Lily pictures are in my Calla Lilly album. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157626082181550/...
Other plants, flowers, fruit or thingys that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant set. 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 a rose from the garden of friends of our who are serious rose growers. The variety is called "Livin' Easy".
Lighting: I wanted to emphasize the luminous qualities of the petals so I back lit them with a Yongnuo flash in a Rogue grid behind and to camera right. Fill light for the front of the flower is from another Yongnuo flash in a 24 inch soft box at camera left at 8 o'clock. I used a small mirror at camera right to bounce a little light onto that side of the flower. The strobes and my tripod mounted camera 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.
www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/721576280
Other pictures that I've taken of roses are in my cleverly titled Roses album.
I lit the shell with two Yongnuo strobes in soft boxes on either side, and then back lit the translucent part that glows with a third Yongnuo flash in a Rogue grid, hand held and behind the shell. The strobes and my tripod mounted camera were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N
Other shells that I have photographed over the years are in my creatively named Shells album. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157626043932290
I used side lighting and back lighting to illuminate this flowers and separate it from the dark background. The main light was a Yongnuo flash in a 24 inch soft box at camera left, and the back lighting was from another Yongnuo flash in a Rogue grid, hand held in back of the flower at camera right. The strobes and my tripod mounted camera 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 900 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 very small shell measuring only one and a half inches in length, and I thought the colors, shapes and textures were interesting.
Lighting stuff: I put the shell on a piece of black PerspexI and used a YN560-III in a Rogue grid behind the shell at camera right to make that part of the shell glow. Light for the front of the shell came from two YN560-III's in identical soft boxes in front on either side and pointing toward the center of the shell.
Other images I've taken of sea shells can be seen in my Shell album, if you like this sort of thing.
This tulip has opened up since I photographed it a few days ago, and I decided to back light it so that the center glowed.
Lighting: Back lighting was from a Yongnuo strobe in a Rogue grid behind the flower, and fill came from another Yongnuo strobe in a soft box on the right side. I used the pop up flash on my camera as the trigger.
I have taken a lot of pictures of flowers using lights, and these are in my Strobe Lit Plants album, if you want to check them out.
From the garden today, and brought indoors so that I could better control the light and the background..
Lighting stuff: The main light was a Yongnuo Flash in a 24 inch soft box at camera left, and a little bit of back lighting came from another Yongnuo flash in a rogue grid behind the flower at camera right. The strobes were triggered by a Yongnuo trigger.
Other pictures of Bird of Paradise flowers are in my creatively named Birds Of Paradise.
This is from the garden this afternoon. These rebloomer iris bloom all year round which is a big point in their favor.
Lighting. Main light was a Yongnuo strobe in a 24 inch soft box at camera right. Back lighting came from another yongnuo strobe in a Rogue grid behind the flower at camera right. Fill light came from a small mirror at camera left.
I've taken quite a few Iris pictures and they can be seen in my Iris album if you like that kind of thing.
www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157623861858581
Other strobe lit flowers that I've documented are here:
I have taken a lot of pictures of flowers using lights, and these are in my Strobe Lit Plants album, if you want to check them out.
This is a small shell measuring 1-3/4 inches (4.44 cm.). I propped it up in a vertical position by leaning it against a small block of glass.
Lighting: The main light was a Yongnuo flash in a 24 inch gridded soft box at camera left at 9 o'clock. I wanted to show the luminous quality of the shell so I back lit it with a hand held Yongnuo flash with a rogue grid on it that was in back at camera right.
I have quite a few sea shell pictures, and if you enjoy that sort of thing, they're in my Shells album.
This is a shell that we picked up off of some beach in Baja, and brought home to beautify our garden. I believe that it's some kind of conch, but my knowledge of sea shells is a vast dark continent of ignorance.
Lighting: I wanted it to glow so I back lit it by putting a Yongnuo strobe in a Rogue grid directly behind the shell. The main light was a Yongnuo strobe in a 24 inch soft box at camera left for side lighting. Fill light came from a small hand held mirror at camera right.
I've exploited quite a few shells over the years, and put them in my Shells album.
My wife and I have some friends who are serious rose growers and this is one of their flowers, picked yesterday that I photographed that afternoon.
Lighting stuff: The main light was a Yongnuo manual flash in an 8.6 inch Lastolite soft box positioned to the left of the flower and pointed at the center. Fill light is from a mirror at camera right and the back lighting came from another Yongnuo flash in a Rogue grid positioned behind the flower at camera right. 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 Plant set. For each image in the set, and there are over 1700 of them, I describe how I set up the lighting for that particular shot. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628079460544/
Other roses that I've photographed can be seen in my Roses album. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157624084160734
Over 40 years ago I bought a book called "The Shell - 500 Million Years of Inspired Design" which featured photography by H. Landshoff. Until that time I had never really payed attention to seashells or appreciated their fascinating shapes. Now that I'm retired, and have the time for it, I've taken to photographing these beautiful objects from nature in an attempt to draw attention to what I find beautiful.
Lighting: I first propped the shell vertically on a mirror to add another dimension to my picture. Lighting was from 2 YN560-III's. One in a rogue grid at camera left, and the other, at camera right, for fill, in an 8.6 inch Lastolite soft box. Both strobes, in manual mode, were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Other images I've taken of sea shells can be seen in my Shell album, if you like that sort of thing.
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/...
From the garden this afternoon.
This was a 2 light setup. Back lighting came from a Yongnuo flash in a Rogue grid behind the flower at camera left. The main light was another Yongnuo flash in a 24 inch soft box in front at camera left and pointing at the center. 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 subjects with over 900 pictures, and for each one, I have described how I lit them, in case you're interested in that kind of thing.
Another of our rebloomer Iris put out a flower this morning, and of course I rushed to exploit it.
Lighting. The main light was a Yongnuo flash, in manual mode, in a 24 inch soft box at camera left. Back lighting is from another Yongnuo in a Rogue grid, hand held, and positioned behind the flower to the right.
Other pictures that I've taken of iris, can be seen in my iris album.
www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157623861858581
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.
I find sea shells to be objects of considerable beauty, and a challenge to light. I placed this on a mirror because I wanted to see the extra dimensions that the reflection reveals. The disadvantage of using a mirror is that every speck of dust shows up. The way I deal with it is crude, but I think effective, in that I just paint over the dust with a black paintbrush in Photoshop. I mention that because I get asked about it.
Lighting stuff: I backlit the shell by putting a YN560-II with a Rogue Grid behind the shell and to camera right. That helped reveal the translucent qualities, and also emphasized the color of the interior.. Fill light came from a YN560-III in an 8.6 inch Lastolite softbox at camera left, and pointing toward the center of the shell.
I have photographed quite a few shells over the years, and if you like this sort of thing, they're in my creatively named Shells album. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157626043932290
Shapes and deep green in a Calla lily that's just opening up.
Lighting. One Yongnuo strobe in a gridded soft box at camera left, one Yongnuo strobe in a Rogue grid behind at camera left, and a mirror at camera right for fill. The strobes were triggered by a Yongnuo trigger.
I fine that these lilies are beautiful subjects, and have an album of their pictures if you like that sort of thing.
This is an old shell we brought back from Baja that's been weathering in our rock garden.
Lighting: I wanted to accomplish two things with my lighting - to emphasize the shapes and textures by using side lighting with a Yongnuo strobe in a 24 inch gridded soft box at camera left, and make the shell glow by back lighting it with a second Yongnuo strobe in a Rogue behind the shell. The strobes were triggered by a Yongnuo YN622N trigger. Fill light on the right side came from a small hand held mirror.
I fine sea shell to be beautiful creations of nature, and enjoy photographing them. I have an album of pictures of shells in my creatively titled Shells album, if you like that sort of thing.
This is the tip of a shoot on a succulent plant that's growing in a pot in our garden. I brought it inside to photograph where it's easier to control the light.
Lighting: I used two YN560-III strobes to light the succulent. Behind, and to camera left, I used one in a Rogue grid for back and rim lighting, and the main light was in an 8.6 inch Lastolite soft box at camera right and in front. The strobes, in manual mode, were 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 set. In the description for that set, I list resources that I've used to learn how to light with off camera flash, and the equipment that I use. www.flickr.com/photos/9422
If you like pictures of cactus and succulents, you might not hate my Cactus and Succulents set. That set can be seen here www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157633383093236/...
There's a house in our rural neighborhood that has a tree that appears to be some variety of maple that has leaves that become red and colorful looking in the fall. It's kind of exotic for southern California, and I think quite beautiful. The change in color must be related to shorter days rather than plunging temperatures since it was 90 degrees here yesterday, on Thanksgiving. Now, if we only had some rain.
I put a Strobie 130 in a Rogue Grid behind the leaf in order to display its luminous qualities. For fill I positioned a YN560-II in a 24 inch softbox at camera right. Both strobes were in manual mode, and were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
The Flickr gods has apparently changed the rules again on how images are selected for Explore. There was a time when quite a few of mine made it into Explore, and then a long period where none made it. Who knows what causes these apparently random changes. Rotation of the earth, hole in the ozone layer, global warming, rolling of the dice? It's a mystery to me, but this image is in Explore. The ways of Flickr are not for the mere mortal to understand.
Other images of mine that are in Explore can be seen in my Explored Album.
www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157618630302105/
Other plants, flowers, fruit or thingys that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant set. 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
Since I picked this flower from our garden several days ago a bunch of new feathers have emerged, worth of exploitation.
Lighting: I lit this with 2 Yongnuo Strobes. One behind the flower at camera right in a Rogue grid for backlighting, and the other, in front at camera left in a 24 inch soft box. The lights were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N trigger.
Other pictures that I've taken of these beautiful flowers are in my Birds of Paradise album.
This is a flower that I picked in the parking lot of a shopping center. Subjects are where you find them.
Lighting. I back lit it with a Yongnuo strobe in a Rogue grid behind the flower at camera left. Fill light came from another Yongnuo strobe in a 24 inch soft box at camera left. The strobes and my tripod mounted camera 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.
This rose, which is called Memphis Music, was grown by friends of ours who are members of the San Diego Rose Society and know a lot about these beautiful flowers.
Lighting: This was a three light setup using Yongnuo strobes. I put two strobes in 24 inch soft boxes in front and on either side of the flower pointed towards the center. Back lighting is from a hand held Yongnuo flash hand held in a Rogue grid behind the flower on the right side. 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.
This is from a succulent plant growing outside in a pot. I brought it indoors to photograph, where it's easier to control the light.
Lighting: The main light was a Yongnuo strobe in a 24 inch soft box at camera right. Back lighting came from another Yongnuo in a Rogue grid behind the flower at camera right. Fill light came from a hand held mirror at camera left. The two strobes were triggered by a Yongnuo trigger.
Other pictures that I've taken of succulents are in my Cactus and Succulents album.
This is a warm colored shell, and I wanted to emphasize that by back lighting it by I placing a YN560-III in a Rogue grid behind the shell to light up the interior. Once that was set, I used a second YN560-III in a 24 inch soft box at camera right. Fill came from a mirror at camera left. The flash, in manual mode, was triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N. The shell was sitting on a sheet of black Perspex.
Other images I've taken of sea shells can be seen in my Shell album, if you like this sort of thing.
I find these bird of paradise to be among the most photogenic of all flowers. This one came from the garden this afternoon.
Lighting stuff: I wanted to make the orange petals (or sepals) glow and appear luminous, so I back lit them by placing a YN560 with a Rogue grid on it behind the flower to the left. Fill light came from a YN560-III in a 24 inch softbox at camera right. The two strobes, in manual mode, were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Other pictures I've taken of these flowers are in my Birds of Paradise set. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157631967781801/
I love the shapes of Calla Lilies, and I exploit them whenever I can find one. This one was found in a nursery.
Lighting: A two light setup. The main light was a Yongnuo strobe in a 24 inch soft box at camera left. I also used another Yongnuo in a Rogue grid behind and to the right to add a little back lighting to the subject. The strobes were triggered by the pop up flash on my camera, and were converted to black and white using Nik Software's Silver Efex Pro 2.
Other Calla Lily pictures that I've taken are in my Calla Lily album.
www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157626082181550
Other black and white pictures I've messed with are ini my Black And White album.
This is one of the many sea shell that we have beach combed, and brought back from Baja. Although numerically, they are very common, I find them to be uncommonly beautiful with their colors, shapes and translucent qualities. It was the translucent quality that I wanted to emphasize when I photographed this shell.
Lighting stuff: I stood this on a mirror, and leaned it against a glass block that was a little taller than the shell, in order to keep it upright and provide a reflection in the mirror. The lighting was from one YN560 in a Rogue grid behind the shell and slightly to camera right. The flash, in manual mode at 1/4 power, was triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N. The lighting was simple but the post processing in Photoshop involved a lot of dust removal with a black paint brush. I like reflections, but the dust is a pain.
Other shells that I have photographed over the years can be seen in my Shell set. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157626043932290/
This is a different look at the same flower I picked and posted the other day.
Lighting: Lit with a Yongnuo strobe in a 24 inch soft box at camera left, and another Yongnuo in a Rogue grid, behind at camera right. The strobes were triggered with a popup flash.
Other picture that I've taken of these beautiful flowers are in my Bird of Paradise album.
www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157631967781801
Other strobe lit flowers that I've documented are here:
I have taken a lot of pictures of flowers using lights, and these are in my Strobe Lit Plants album, if you want to check them out.
This is a plant that I bought today in order to light and exploit. I've done a fair amount of flower photography, and my personal choice for the flower that's the perfect photographic subject is the Calla Lily.
These flowers are quite translucent, so the first thing I did was to position a YN560 in a Rogue grid behind and to the left of the flower. I like the glow that the backlighting creates. I took a bunch of test shots to get the power output and position of the light the way I wanted. To light the front of the flower, used a YN560-III in a 24 inch softbox at camera left and pointing toward the center of the flower. Fill light came from a small hand mirror at camera right. The two strobes, in manual mode, were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Other Calla Lily pictures are in my Calla Lilly album. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157626082181550/...
Other plants, flowers, fruit or thingys that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant set. 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 a bud that was in the process of opening when I took this picture, three days after I picked it.
Lighting: I put a Yongnuo strobe in a Rogue grid, behind and at camera left and a bare Yongnuo behind at camera right for back lighting to make the petals in back glow. The front of the flower was lit with a 2 Yongnuo strobes in 24 inch soft boxes in front of the flower at camera left and right and pointed at the center. The strobes were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Other pictures that I've taken of roses are in my cleverly titled Roses album.
www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157624084160734
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 amaryllis plant we were given for Christmas, and yesterday I posted a picture of the three unopened buds on the plant. Down below in the comments you can see what the buds looked like in yesterday's image. Today one of the buds is partly opened so I decided to exploit it by documenting its progress.
Lighting info: I wanted the petals and interior of the flower to glow so I placed a YN560 in a Rogue Grid on a light stand behind and to camera left. For fill light, I put a YN560-II in a 24 inch softbox at camera left pointing toward the opening in the bud. Both strobes in manual mode were 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. One of the great resources on Flickr for learning about off camera flash is the Strobist.com group. www.flickr.com/photos/9422
In researching this flower I learned that it has many names including "Naked Ladies". "Belladona Lilly and "Belladonna Amaryllis". The flowers are pretty and require no care, which endears them to me, as they pretty much fend for themselves, growing up against a boulder under a fig tree. These plants bloom in August every year, and the picture I took of them in 2013 has become my most viewed image on Flickr. Two years ago I photographed it again, and it became my second most viewed image I wonder if the title has anything to do with it. Hmm ...... Here is this years version.
Lighting information: The main light was a YN560III in a 24 inch soft box placed camera left and in front at 8 o'clock. I wanted the luminous qualities of the petals to show so I put a YN560-III in a Rogue Grid behind the flower on the left side at 11 o'clock for back lighting.. Fill light on the right side came from a YN560 III in another 24 inch soft box. The strobes, in manual mode, were 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 set. In the description for that set, I list resources that I've used to learn how to light with off camera flash, and the equipment that I use. www.flickr.com/photos/9422
My wife and I like sea shells, and have accumulated quite a few of them over the years. I find shells to be excellent photo subjects because of the interesting shapes and color. This is one I grabbed this morning to exploit.
To show the shapes and textures, I side lit the shell with a Yongnuo flash in a 24 inch soft box at camera right. To make it glow, and show the translucent qualities, I back lit it with another Yongnuo flash in a Rogue grid, hand held behind the shell.
I have quite a few sea shell pictures, and if you enjoy that sort of thing, they're in my Shells album.
I back lit the iris bud this morning with the intention of converting it to black and white. I thought that the back lighting against the dark background would work well for a high contrast black and white image.
Lighting: The back lighting came from a Yongnuo flash in a Rogue grid, behind the bud at camera right. Fill lighting came from another Yongnuo flash in a 24 inch soft box at camera lefft. The strobes and my tripod mounted camera were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N. I used NIK software's Silver Efex Pro 2.0 to convert the image to black and white.
I'm a big fan of black and white photography, and other black and white pictures that I've taken are in my Black And White album.
Tabletop home studio shoot
Strobist:
- YN560III (1/16) right and left, diffused by savage trans-lum foil (140x100cm both sides)
- YN560III (1/16) on top, diffused by savage trans-lum foil (60x100cm)
- YN560III (1/64) with rogue grid on the background;
Table: Black plexiglass;
Background: Colorama Colormatt, Coal;
Subject: Lipton Ice Tea + fake ice cubes
I brought this succulent inside to photograph where it's easier to photograph.
Lighting: Lit with a Yongnuo strobes on either side in 24 inch soft boxes. I also used a 3rd Yongnuo strobe in a Rogue grid behind and to the left to give a little bit of rim lighting. All 3 strobes were triggered by a Yongnuo trigger.
Other pictures that I've taken of succulents are in my Cactus and Succulents album.
This is such a very small shell measuring about 1-1/2 inches that I had to use a Kenko extension tube on my macro lens in order to fill the frame.
Lighting stuff: I placed it on a piece of black Perspex and used 3 YN560-III's to light it. One in an 8.6 inch Lastolite soft box at camera left for the main light, one in a Rogue Grid behind the shell to help light up the interior and one in a 24 inch soft box at camera right for fill. The strobes, in manual mode, were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N. I started with the main light, and then added the other two, one at a time, and adjusted the power settings until they looked right.
Other images I've taken of sea shells can be seen in my Shell album, if you like this sort of thing.