The flower, that is.
Taken in my garden this evening using my Speedlite (bounced of the steps to the left of the flower). As this particular side garden is right under our dryer vent, there are a few bits of its output on the flower.
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Carissa Snedeker Photography 
Nice lighting. The course really paid off.
Mine are just now showing the buds near opening. I’ve not figured out out to shoot in my current state (have not worked hard at it, either), and I’m somewhat miffed at missing out on two spring seasons in a row. Worse yet, next week is A Day (http://www.aday.org/), and I had signed up. I’ll have to figure something out.
Anyway, great idea to light the subject and darken the background using flash.
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Thanks. I clicked over to aday.org. Looks intriguing. I may have to jump in. I’m sure you’ll figure something out. You’re a determined kind of guy!
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Demented? Me?!?! Why, I’ll have you know . . . . oh . . . “determined”. Uh . . . thanks.
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Great shot Carissa… love the composition and the black background ..the flower even more ‘pops’ out of my screen… lovely
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Thank you, Joanna!
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Really fast shutter speed to take out all ambient light? Just wondering how you got the black background if it was your garden đ
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ISO 100, F/5.6, 1/60s. It was late in the day, with shadow in the garden. I aimed the flash at the concrete stairs to left of flower so that the light reflected directly back on the flower and did not fill anywhere else. I had lowered the intensity of the flash quite a bit. The background did not get lit this way (angle of incidence = angle of reflection).
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Gorgeous! Wonderful details. đ
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Thank you, Inga!
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beautiful and excellent lighting đ
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Thank you!
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If you plan to do more nature photography, which seems likely, you may find some of the techniques I’ve described useful:
http://portraitsofwildflowers.wordpress.com/about-technique/
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Thanks for link!
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Oh my, oh my! The background really worked well with this shot! You have to get this printed.
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So nice photo. I love these, and have some in my garden. They don’t crave much, not even in temperature, but they give a lot of beauty.
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This is true. They are in my “shadow” garden. Not much light there at all.
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Oh, that’s beautiful. My favorite color combination, too.
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Thank you. I love columbine.
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You did a good job on this one! Very nice.
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