{"id":2323,"date":"2012-01-14T16:30:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T16:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2323"},"modified":"2012-01-14T16:30:32","modified_gmt":"2012-01-14T16:30:32","slug":"another-session-of-different-lighting-a-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2323","title":{"rendered":"Another session of different lighting a flower"},"content":{"rendered":"

Learning from my previous trials, I tried some different ways of lighting another sample of the Christmas Cactus flower:<\/p>\n

\"Backlighting<\/a>This is an edited image of the first example. This is not back-lit image, but the first setup shot. The flower is lit by a manual flashgun to the upper left firing through a diffuser panel. There is a mirror-like reflector under the flower providing some fill lighting underneath. This has given, what I think, is a very nice lighting for this flower, although the tip of the flower is a little dark. The setup can be seen below:<\/p>\n

\"Backlighting<\/a>The flashgun on the stand at the back was not active. A series of test shots showed that having a mirror underneath improved the lighting.<\/p>\n

In this next image, the flower has a back light behind an above it. Here the small flashgun on a stand was brought forward to provide additional illumination. For this shot, the mirror was removed.<\/p>\n

\"Backlighting<\/a>This image is unedited. The lighting is still pleasant, but subtlety different. There is no mirror underneath as can be seen in the setup below:<\/p>\n

\"Backlighting<\/a><\/p>\n

Below is a similar shot – the difference being re-introducing the mirror below the flower. The difference is very subtle in this case:<\/p>\n

\"Backlighting<\/a>Below is the setup:<\/p>\n

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This is my final, and I think the best shot of the session:<\/p>\n

\"An<\/a>Although focusing on the stamens at the front of the flower, I have tried to show the pinkish glow (how you see it depends on the setup of your monitor) showing inside the flower. To enhance this I had to set the second flashgun to illuminate the body of the flower without lighting the petals at the front. The setup is shown below:<\/p>\n

\"Setup<\/a>Here, there is a black card shielding the front of the flower with a small flashgun illuminating to the rear.<\/p>\n

A larger version of the flower can be seen in my gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Learning from my previous trials, I tried some different ways of lighting another sample of the Christmas Cactus flower: This is an edited image of the first example. This is not back-lit image, but the first setup shot. The flower is lit by a manual flashgun to the upper left firing through a diffuser panel. … Continue reading “Another session of different lighting a flower”<\/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":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-close-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323","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=2323"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2371,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions\/2371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}