Playing with the Light

sapphire73

I am just starting to try to take close up shots of flowers indoors - without natural lighting. I don't have anything special for doing this. Today I experimented with candlelight below the iris, and I bounced the external flash (which I had minimized). If I try this again sometime, what might you suggest changing - either in my set up or in post processing? I have Lightroom 3 and Photoshop Elements. I used the 24-105L lens for these shots. Might have done better using the 60 mm macro.



Thanks.

P.S. As mentioned in another thread on dgrin, I have a new monitor that I haven't yet calibrated and most pictures look too red. If this one really is too vibrant, feel free to let me know.:scratch

GOLDENORFE

quite like it, colour looks ok but the dark shadows a liitle harsh.

need to soften the light source

sapphire73

Thanks, Phil. After shooting this series, my strobist-college-student son gave me some tips for putting the flash in manual mode and reducing the power of the flash, so now I have another missing piece.

I'm thinking that I would do well to work through some of the tutorials offered here and on other parts of the dgrin forum. Lots of great stuff here and the winter is a good time for me to be doing this kind of thing!

Gretchen