Kaffir lily - Schizostylis

macromeister

Took this from the garden yesterday. It's a rather small flower (the flower heads are about 2cm across), and very delicate. Lit by diffused studio flash in the studio. Five images stacked in Helicon, from RAW.


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kaffir lily by rob ashcroft @ www.macromeister.co.uk, on Flickr

Lord Vetinari

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Brian v.

GOLDENORFE

nice idea , i dont think it works too well. flowers opening upwards not really appealing to me , and light looks a little bright.

just my oppinion. did you try natural lighting? maybe a closer view looking down throat of flower maybe also ?

macromeister

GOLDENORFE wrote: »

nice idea , i dont think it works too well. flowers opening upwards not really appealing to me , and light looks a little bright.

just my oppinion. did you try natural lighting? maybe a closer view looking down throat of flower maybe also ?

I do sometimes shoot flowers from unusual angles, just to get a different view of them. I tend to use studio flash most of the time indoors, and even outdoors at times, as the quality and evenness of the light is so good. I think this shot does look bright because I increased the clarity and vibrance in RAW edit, and that does tend to make for more impact. Perhaps I did a bit too much.