I took some really gloomy rainy day photos, but there have been too many cold rainy days lately to come up with a creative angle. It was tempting to post a filler, but then I decided to experiment with some low key photos at night. This is a white rose from the bouquet my daughter Melissa bought me for my birthday. I'd like to experiment further with this technique.
@lorihiro Thank you, LH! It was actually pretty simple with the rose. I tried it with people last week with much less luck. All I did was put the rose in a separate vase on my dining room table and then I propped a small spotlight that I sometimes use for work food shots up on a container of bird seed so it was level with the rose. Then I turned out all the lights in the room and started shooting. I used the auto settings, so it was pretty easy peasy.
Beautiful, Laurie. What a great make-shift technique you've come up with. Your focus on the petals really draws out the details of the rose. Fav for being very special.
