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 The garden was a mess and we were still pondering and waiting for building work (which didn't actually get done until a couple of years later, but that's another story). The weeds were doing well in the garden and the brambles in particular. A bunch of flowers from the local supermarket to cheer the place up and sat down one evening to stare at the form of the flowers using a simple table lamp to light them up. After picking each one from the vase and twiddling them about to look from every conceivable angle, I separated this one from the bunch and went to work.
The picture I had in mind was a simple profile view of the flower head and stem, lit from one source only and to make the background vanish. It was to be a study of the flower, nothing more. I had admired the shapes of the petals and the red edges to each petal. How could nature be so perfect? I do not know the precise identification of this variety, but my guess is that nature needed a helping hand to produce this, but even so it felt like there was some kind of engineering perfection in the plant.
To produce the image I used a black card background about 50cm away from the flower head. I continued to use a tungsten table lamp and another table lamp help up above the flower head to get some additional light onto the flower itself. Without that the picture would be of shadow, not much flower.
The image was captured with a Canon 20D, 50mm Sigma lens and extension tubes to get closer. I have performed some extra work in Aperture to ensure the black background was truly black and cropped a little.
Canon 20D, 50mm f1.8 lens, ISO100, f8, 0.6sec. Tripod.
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