Behind the scenes of the Winter Aconite shoot.
Inspired by Jon Sharp's thread ' Mini Challenge - "In my garden". '
Not much happening out there at all but I did manage to find a few Winter Aconites poking their heads through the leave litter. Most were inaccessible but I found one that was. The light today was very poor, totally overcast skies. An incident light meter reading suggesting 1/8 sec @ f16 for ISO200.
I have attatched a picture of the subject in an as found condition and is a straight exposure. With such dull conditions a touch of flash was going to be required to lift the scene. A small amount of gardening was done as is indicated in the final picture. Three lighter coloured leaves were introduced. The foreground leaf was turned 180 degrees, and the other darker leaf just lifted a tad.
The lens used was an AIS Nikkor 55 Micro so focussing was manual as was exposure. Flash was used to add a bit of colour to the leaves. The effect can be seen in those leaves I did not affect with my bit of gardening. This required the flash to have maximum diffusion so that its effect would be subtle. Flash exposure was judged by using the variable output control and ended up at full power where I had initially placed it. The time of the final exposure was moved from 1/8 sec to 1/6 sec to give a plus 1/3rd of a stop over the initial image.
Don.
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