@365anne Thanks Anne. I remember reading that somewhere but can't recall where. However, it did resonate with me ... we all want to be loved and accepted!
@narayani Thanks Narayani. Wind was blowing the little ones away before I could shoot it whole, but I was using my flash so that "stopped it in it's tracks". Was upside down because the head was actually broken and in a loop hanging down ...
@beckyk365 Thanks Becky. No that isn't my black tile this time around. I have discovered that the best black background - one with no stray spots, is to use a flash really close up and under expose the entire scene. This was a cheap ring flash, so the falloff of light is dramatic with the light only reaching as far as the dandelion. Providing there is nothing else nearby in the background, the whole background is just underexposed black.
@beckyk365 Underexpose in camera .... the photo without flash is almost black due to a very small aperture (F22) and a fast shutter speed. So the flash is providing the light coming in to the sensor. Basically if there is a subject close enough to the flash to reflect the light back, that is what your sensor will see. Where there is no subject, the quick flash of light will just carry on into infinity and your photo would be completely black. Because of the inverse square law of light fall off .....(in my layman's terms and limited understanding of light it goes something like "every time you double the distance to the subject, the amount of light reaching it is quartered"), infinity is not really all that far away. And then of course just drop the exposure a bit more in editing if necessary.
