Forbidden Fruit Macro…
by Rodney Campbell on Jun.27, 2013, under Life, Photography
During our macro day at the Royal Botanic Gardens I found this interesting set of flower heads atop this plant (a Canna Lily I think) and decided to use off camera light to turn day into night. I shot stopped down (f/16) at my camera’s sync speed (1/200th) and used my LED macro ring light and my SB-900 flash handheld to provide the lighting
Fruit
NIKON D600 + 90.0 mm f/2.8 @ 90 mm, 1/200 sec at f/16, ISO 100
and this one where I tried controlling the spill of light to keep it off the background (closer and more angled) which I’ve converted to monochrome. Unfortunately in the process of keeping the light off the background leaves it’s also made the light very flat on the pods and well….
Forbidden Fruit
NIKON D600 + 90.0 mm f/2.8 @ 90 mm, 1/200 sec at f/16, ISO 100
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June 30th, 2013 on 11:29 am
This is a beaut Rodney! Which ring light did you use? I’ve been wanting to get a decent ring light but I’ve never messed with those before. There are some that have an LED set of lights and some cheaper ones where you poke a flash through from the bottom (like what David Hobby uses). Can you recommend me a brand (and place to buy?)
Regards,
Mark
June 30th, 2013 on 4:42 pm
Hi Mark – I’m using the Aputure Amaran Halo LED Ring Flash http://www.rc.au.net/blog/2012/06/13/aputure-amaran-halo-led-ring-flash/ – although most of the light for this photo came from the SB-900 flash used handheld