Cactus flower two ways

[flamin lib]

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Ambient light, near noon.

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On camera diffused flash. Notice how the background has almost dropped out.

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My DIY diffuser for close up/macro pictures. I may go back and shoot it again at dusk with off camera soft box.

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[SheltieLover]

1. Gorgeous!

Thank you for sharing with us! 😍

[secondwind]

2. WOW!

[MichaelSoE]

3. For years I used a diffused flash for my florals

Not only the softness of light but with the flash, freezing motion, I rarely had problems with blurry images due to the wind blowing.

[flamin lib]

4. Nice! nt

[Callalily]

5. Very interesting.

With all this time on my hands practicing safer-at-home stuff, I thought that I would have more time to experiment. *SIGH*

I'm hanging my head.

When working full time I seemed to always have time for experimentation. I must motivate myself more.

[flamin lib]

6. Foam board is your friend. Some tape, Gorilla glue and tracing vellum will

occupy a lot of time.

The idea is to make a small light source into a big one. Soft wrap around light that still has direction.

The hard part is making it portable.

[JudyM]

7. Beautiful and interesting lesson.