We'll leave the light on

Gallery: FloraPosted March 14, 2012521 views13 comments

These snow drops flowers always remind me of some type of light so in photographing this flower I decided to play up that aspect just for fun.

This was an indoor shoot. I used a gorillatorch to provide some uplight inside the flower to make it look like a light turned on. Blue fabric background.

Canon Rebel T1i. 180mm macro lens. F/20 for 1/2 sec. ISO 100.

Comments

13 comments

Comment posted by Bob&Charly Nelson on March 14, 2012 at 10:30 PM

What a wonderful display Carolyn. Wonderful effort and reward.
Bob

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Comment posted by Wayne Jones on March 14, 2012 at 10:46 PM

Dynomite effect, Carolyn. Great idea, and excellent details.

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Comment posted by Gary Yeoh on March 15, 2012 at 4:32 AM

Carolyn:
Great idea and beautifully done. Looks like a lamp shade.

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Comment posted by Bob Duff on March 15, 2012 at 6:56 AM

Great idea Carolyn. I like the BG which gives the sense of midnight deep shadows. The pose does look like a lamp standard. My only suggestion would have been to do a double exposure and blend them so the light on the underside of the stem didn't appear in the image to further the concept the light was coming form the bloom.

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Comment posted by Ian Wolfenden on March 15, 2012 at 7:08 AM

Very nice, Carolyn ! Love the unusually deep blue bg, and the lighting on the snowdrop is excellent.

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Comment posted by Shrinivas Sharma on March 15, 2012 at 12:23 PM

Beautiful :) Looks like Lamp!!!! Very nice light and BG really works well here....

Registered on January 24, 2012, 33 Posts, 164 Comments

Comment posted by Nathan Buck on March 15, 2012 at 3:32 PM

Very nice Carolyn. I like the thought and the execution. Very well done.

Nathan

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Comment posted by Albert Darmo on March 15, 2012 at 10:35 PM

Hi Carolyn

An inspired capture!! The detail,
color and light on the light err bloom is perfectly done

Albert Darmo
Canada

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Comment posted by Lorna Taylor on March 15, 2012 at 10:48 PM

Fantastic capture Carolyn, your intend is very clear as in it truly does have a lamp like appearance !

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Comment posted by Catherine Reilly on March 17, 2012 at 3:58 AM

Set up to enhance every graceful detail of this flower. Well done, Carolyn.

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Comment posted by Benjamin Olson on March 17, 2012 at 4:53 PM

Beautiful, delicate light here Carolyn. Nicely seen!

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Comment posted by Daniel & Loana on March 18, 2012 at 4:04 PM

Wonderful colours and strong composition.

D&L

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Comment posted by Larry Lynch on March 19, 2012 at 7:49 AM

Love this Carolyn. One of the finest offerings of this flower I've seen in a long time.

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