{"id":2294,"date":"2012-01-07T16:59:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T16:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2294"},"modified":"2014-02-20T17:47:07","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T17:47:07","slug":"trying-out-back-lighting-a-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2294","title":{"rendered":"Trying out back-lighting a flower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been experimenting with back-lighting a flower of a Christmas Cactus &#8211; here are some of the results:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/01\/trying-out-back-lighting-a-flower\/e12_0133\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2295\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2295\" title=\"E12_0133\" alt=\"White backlighting\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/E12_0133.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/E12_0133.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/E12_0133-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>All these photos are as &#8216;just out of the camera&#8217; &#8211; they have not been &#8216;Photoshopped&#8217;, just re-sized and watermarked. As I was studying the lighting effects, I have not been too fussy about the background, hence the leaf in the background. All the flashguns are on manual settings &#8211; no auto \/ttl flash.<\/p>\n<p>This first one is where I had a small flashgun pointing to a translucent panel to provide a white background. There is a flashgun high to the left shining through a translucent panel and a small reflector was held above and to the front reflecting light back onto the front. I was quite pleased with this result.\u00a0 A larger version can be seen in the <a title=\"Featured photograph\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/featured-photographs\/pow2012\/slides\/E12_0133p1.php\">gallery<\/a>. The setup is shown below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/01\/trying-out-back-lighting-a-flower\/i12_0007\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2300\" title=\"I12_0007\" alt=\"Setup for white background\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/I12_0007.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/I12_0007.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/I12_0007-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Behind the white panel behind the flower is a small flashgun as shown in the side view below:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/01\/trying-out-back-lighting-a-flower\/i12_0008\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2301\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2301\" title=\"I12_0008\" alt=\"Side view of white background\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/I12_0008.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/I12_0008.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/I12_0008-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>You can just see the flashgun on the left that shines through the translucent panel. Removing this panel enabled me to try the next 2 photos where I am back lighting from below with a back background:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/01\/trying-out-back-lighting-a-flower\/e12_0136\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2296\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2297\" title=\"E12_0137\" alt=\"bottom backlight V1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/E12_0137.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/E12_0137.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/E12_0137-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2296\" title=\"E12_0136\" alt=\"Bottom backlight V2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/E12_0136.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/E12_0136.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/E12_0136-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Both these images were taken under similar conditions &#8211; the difference being the use of a reflector held above and to the front of the flower, reflecting light back down onto the subject.<\/p>\n<p>In these next two, they are back-lit from above, the difference between them being the light from the top left and a reflector to the front.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/01\/trying-out-back-lighting-a-flower\/e12_0138\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2298\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2298\" title=\"E12_0138\" alt=\"backlight from above v1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/E12_0138.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/E12_0138.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/E12_0138-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/01\/trying-out-back-lighting-a-flower\/e12_0139\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2299\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2299\" title=\"E12_0139\" alt=\"backlight from above v2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/E12_0139.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/E12_0139.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/E12_0139-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>The basic setup for this is shown below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/01\/trying-out-back-lighting-a-flower\/i12_0009\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2302\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2302\" title=\"I12_0009\" alt=\"Backlit from above\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/I12_0009.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/I12_0009.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/I12_0009-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been experimenting with back-lighting a flower of a Christmas Cactus &#8211; here are some of the results: All these photos are as &#8216;just out of the camera&#8217; &#8211; they have not been &#8216;Photoshopped&#8217;, just re-sized and watermarked. As I was studying the lighting effects, I have not been too fussy about the background, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2294\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trying out back-lighting a flower&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lighting","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2294"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3526,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions\/3526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}