Last night I was playing with a bunch of wildflowers that I picked and put in a blue glass vase. I love the vibrant yellow with the cobalt blue, but how it looked on my table in the photo just wasn't doing it for me. The background is my messy kitchen (its clean now thanks to a few hours alone this morning yay!!) and the colors don't really pop. Also the vase, which is simple and beautiful, doesn't get the full attention it deserves.
It was late afternoon and the sun was on the other side of the house. I am sure it doesn't really matter for this trick as long as there is daylight at all. What I did was arrange the vase and
flower so that I would be facing the large sliding glass door with my camera. I pulled my gauzy curtains shut (probably does not matter if you have them but I think it helped a little) and removed any objects that were in front of the door. I put my camera on Manual. Next, I opened up my aperture as wide as it would go on my 18-55 mm lens. I set the shutter speed to 1/13 of a second and my ISO at 400. Here is the result:
Simple, elegant, and I think would make a great print! I think I will get one made. I have done nothing to this photo except retouch a couple of shadows on the edge. I may further retouch to remove the slight shadow on the right hand side, but as far as the lighting effect here that was all camera!
Play around with flowers and lighting! You can get some really neat results!
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