The Art of Flora

[littlebabylon]

just spent few weeks' time to try some flora shots in studio and chose 20 to post, have a look if you have time, and comments are very welcome.

http://www.pbase.com/littlebabylon/flora

best rgds
kevin

[lhaskins]

Wow, these images are absolutely stunning! Thanks very much for sharing them. Cheers, Lisa
ps, any tips on how you did the lighting for these would be greatly appreciated.

[shadepuppy]

I'll echo Lisa's words -- "STUNNING"! You are painting with light.

[littlebabylon]

the setup can be divided into 3 levels, from bottom to Top, firstly set the camera at the lowest level, face to the ceiling. fix a large glass in the middle level, and the fruits is placing on this glass, facing down to the camera. finally the black background is set to the highest level, facing down too. lighting set in between the level of camera and the glass, lighting through the glass to light the fruit. lighting from the side in order to create the shadow, and as result, a totally black blackground created.

this setup is a bit different from the normal table top lighting, hope it helps.

[shaun]

Excellent. The lighting makes it. I think you might
find people chasing you for use of these images....

[lhaskins]

Great Kevin! Thanks very much, it really helps to have some idea how to get such amazing results with lighting. It looks like magic but there is a science there!

cheers, Lisa

[littlebabylon]

and thanks for the nice comments in my galleries

rgds
kevin

[dcoleman59]

Really nice, Kevin. The lighting is superb.

Dan Coleman
http://www.pbase.com/dcoleman59