Lily canopy

rob marshall

Shot this on my home made light table. Here is a shot of it. I turned one of my studio lamps towards the ceiling and balanced a sheet of white semi-transparent acrylic on top. I used a Canon flash gun on a light stand, and fitted with a diffuser, to get the top light. Here is the setup. You can see the light coming through from the modelling lamp underneath the acrylic. I turned the flower upside-down. Then, in CS5 I rotated the shot 180 deg to give the impression that I had shot it from underneath. Tricky getting the light right as it was coming from opposing directions, but got there in the end.

Gary Mayo

Thanks for showing your set up. Adds much to the post. Nice image!

Lord Vetinari

LOvely result and interesting setup !
Brian v.

cbbr

Great shot and thanks for the picture of your setup!

rob marshall

cbbr wrote: »

Great shot and thanks for the picture of your setup!

Thank you. I was quite surprised it came out like that. It doesn't look much in the setup

tmelo

Very nicely done. I really like seeing setup shots...gives me lots of ideas.

rob marshall

tmelo wrote: »

Very nicely done. I really like seeing setup shots...gives me lots of ideas.

Thank you. I find it a lot easier than trying to explain things if someone asks. It only takes a few seconds to do a quick shot of the set-up.

denisegoldberg

I really like this. I've always wondered how photos like this one were taken so thanks much for the shots of your setup.

--- Denise

rob marshall

denisegoldberg wrote: »

I really like this. I've always wondered how photos like this one were taken so thanks much for the shots of your setup.

--- Denise

Thanks, Denise. Here is the RAW shot before CS5 processing and rotation. You really can't beat such amateur methods!

GOLDENORFE

beautifull ! lighting worked great