Nigella Flowers

[John Holland]

These Nigella flowers start off as a blue bud. When they open, they start out as white flowers, and then turn blue over a couple of days. The white flower opened this morning, and the blue one opened yesterday (maybe the day before that)

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[Dave Farnes]

Beautiful set of flower images John. I particularly like this one, you have captured every detail. Great stuff.

 

[John Holland]

Thank you Dave.

Here are a couple more

 

[Dave Farnes]

Thank you for those, two more beautiful images.

 

[Pete Askew]

Gorgeous images, John. You should do a write-up of the technique you used. It would be interesting.

 

[John Holland]

Thank you Pete. The set-up is pretty simple:

Black background, and three strobes (camera left is the main light, camera right is a fill, and a overhead/back-light. I adjust the lights to get the desired f/stop (I shoot at the mach sync speed of 1/200 second for this camera).

 

[Pete Askew]

Thanks for the detail, John. I have posted pictures of the setup I've used in the past. Maybe we can persuade you do so too at some point. I'm sure folks will find it interesting.

 

[John Holland]

Will do Pete, the next time I set up I'll try to shoot a shot of the set-up