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                    Flowers By Flashlight     By: Mark Gromko

I recently took up a photo challenge that had three guidelines: 1) the subject was to be flowers, 2) you were to use a macro lens, and 3) you were to illuminate the flowers only with a flashlight (the room being otherwise dark). I began with the idea to illuminate the flowers from behind, hoping that the petals would be thin enough to allow some light to pass through and thereby make the flowers glow. That approach worked well for the Iris, the Rose, and the Columbine.
 
Other flowers were simply too thick with petals and transmitted no light from behind, so I shined the flashlight directly on the flowers, as with the Mums.
 
For other flowers I realized I could get the glow effect to a degree, but the lighting could be improved if they were also illuminated from in front or from the side. Rather than try and juggle two flashlights, I used in-camera multiple exposures. I would take from one to four exposures from behind and a single exposure from in front; these were combined in camera to produce a single picture. As you can imagine, the lighting was not repeatable exactly, so I took many tries before getting a picture with nicely balanced lighting. I used that approach for the Anemone and the Weigela.
 
I lit the Alstromeria from each side and from above (again using in-camera multiple exposures). I took several such pictures and then picked two where the shadows were slightly different; I then blended those two photos in the computer. The total effect thus uses exposures combined in camera and in the computer.
 
The Woody Peonies were my favorite: the flowers were complex and extravagantly colored, and the petals transmitted just enough light to glow with the colors of the flower. I again used in-camera multiple-exposure to get illumination from in front and behind. For some of the images, as with the yellow peony in the vase, I used two or three separate such multiple-exposure pictures and subsequently blended them in the computer.


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  • Home
  • Look What I Shot
    • My Image
    • My Video
    • My Favorite Image
    • Member Collections >
      • How to prepare Member Collections
      • Cypress in the Bayous
      • Geneseo Fly In 9-8-22
      • Working my shot by Dale Fehr
      • Fire And Ice
      • Flowers By Flashlight
      • The Best Of Utah
      • My Damselflies Collection
      • Teton's & Yellowstone
      • My Dragonfly Collection
      • Our Iowa Black Bear
      • My Butterfly Collection
      • Arizona Slot Canyon
      • 2020 Yellowstone Winter
      • Waterwork Magic
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      • The American Bald Eagle
      • " Warblers "
      • Brooks Falls Alaska Bears
      • Quad City Air Show 2019
      • Yellowstone Winter
      • Costa Rica (Pure Life)
  • Club Info
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    • Club Events >
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      • October 20th Member Light Painting
      • Video Geneseo Fly In
      • Geneseo Fly In
      • Drone Images
      • Portrait Photography Part 1&2
      • I74 Bridge Night Photo Shoot
      • Honor Flight April 12th. 2022
      • March 17th Weather Program
      • Audrey Mueller's Poem
      • Feb 17 Meeting on Printing
      • Dec 17th Shared Images
      • Vandeveer Park June 7th. Outing
      • 2021 Glennie Photo Contest Results
      • Bereskin Photo Exploration
      • The Halloween Game Nov 2020
      • The Moon Game Oct 2020
      • The Bridge Game Aug 2020
      • Tribute to Jackie Gerse
      • The Hunter by: Brian Shul
      • QC Veteran 100yr Birthday
      • CP Holiday Train Photo Shoot
      • Honor Flight 10-31-2019
      • Honor Flight 9-12-2019
      • Over the Edge Aug 23 and 24th.
      • Ballet Photography Exhibit
      • Picnic / Outing July 13th. 2019
      • The Big Boy Train 2019
      • Honor Flight 5-30-2019
      • Print Month May 2019
      • Giving Back To Our Community
  • Photo Resources
    • Photoshop Selections and Motion Blur
    • Light Painting
    • Working your shot
    • Edit with me Jackie Gerse
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    • Picture frame Ideas and plans
    • Photographing Fireworks
    • Changing Skies in Photoshop
    • Selective Color using Lightroom
    • Portrait Photography with one light
    • Editing Color & Black White in Lightroom
    • Milky Way Photography
    • Polarizer 101
    • How to Focus Stack
    • Photographing Snowflakes
    • Using Filters To Control Light
    • Megapixels how many do I need?
    • Multiple Exposure Photography
    • Shooting at Sunrise and Sunset
    • Manual Mode Cheat Sheet
    • How to Resize, Rename, Color Space, Image Cropping, and Taking People Pictures
    • How to do Air Show Photography
    • How to do Eagle photography
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