Flowers, all strobed up
We have some flowers – african violets, I think? In knowledgeable hands, they bloom almost continually. In our hands, we’re lucky if it’s once a year, in the summer. They’re blooming right now.
To the right, you’ll see a macro shot of these blooms. While it can be expensive to get all of the right pieces of equipment, it’s pretty simple to run if you do. In my case, I have Nikon gear, which means that I have a few flashes, and Nikon’s excellent iTTL flash technology.
So how did I get the dead-black dropoff with the lighting on the petals? That, after the jump:
