I thought I would try my hand at taking a photo of a flower in a dark room with a single light source. I used a piece of black card stuck to a wall and put single tulip into a vase about 0.5m in front of it. Using a small desk lamp set about 1m away to the right, I switched off the room light and began taking photos from my camera set on a tripod.
I was at first amazed at how difficult it was to get the back drop plain black without any reflection from the light. I need to invest in some black cloth methinks!
Then my next challenge was to try and get the light coming in at the right direction to light up the tulip enough but to leave some of it in shadow. I experimented with a sheet of white paper as a reflector to get a more even lighting on the subject, ideal for portrait photography. The end result was a very flat looking image so I abandoned that idea!
I also toyed around with the aperture settings to try and get as much in focus without losing the fuzzy background I wanted.
Post processing was easy. In Lightroom I simply boosted the blacks and contrast a little. That was it!
So what do you think? Do you have any improvement suggestions? I appreciate all comments.
No comments:
Post a Comment