Charles Ginsburgh
About the Image(s)
Another attempt at getting some differential “drop off” in light across the subject. Here, as with many of my images I enjoy the concept of the subject “emerging from the darkness”, so I often employ a black background. Again, I am inspired by the work of Melanie Kern-Favilla.
One of the hallmarks of Melanie Kern-Favilla’s macro technique is to carefully “sculpt” the light and shadow falling on her subjects using a black felt lined box, a variety of screens, flags and diffusers (mostly created from household items such as sheer curtains and paper) and long exposures at darker exposures (-2 to -3 stops). This is what I tried here in this image of this dried rose. The was a 3 second exposure at f/8, ISO 100 at -2 stops using a 100 mm f/2.8 macro lens. Here I only needed on shot as the subject was “fairly “in the plane” of the camera sensor and I was willing to accept some drop-off in the focus toward the back of the subject.
In this image I was really trying to introduce and capture shadows and shading across the subject. See what you all think.
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Very beautiful image and I really like it especially with the clean black background. Its a new technique and I am already looking forward to try it myself.
Regards
Vinod K   Posted: 01/13/2020 11:23:10