Photo 365: Day 130 – Festiva Maxima Peony
It’s another rainy/windy day here in St. Louis and as I already planned to post Peony for Day 130 had to shoot this indoors.
Used couple of black cardboards for backdrop and had this shot using the window lighting. To lit the shadows, my wife helped me with holding the home-made reflector (crinkled aluminum wrap stuck on a cardboard) at an angled towards the window/peony. I really liked the way it turned out.
I’ve been taking some peony shots too…this is lovely!
Absolutely stunning! What a beauty.
Really lovely. The light is so nice evenly spread. 🙂
for the reflector, is it simple aluminum paper that you use in the kitchen?
Glued to a cardboard?
Yes Vampie; It’s a regular Aluminum foil that we use in the kitchen. I think we had put this together almost 7+ years now. We took a white cardboard (that’s not too shiny) and had the crinkled foil glued to one side. So when we need the light reflected, we use the foiled side. And for those situations where we need to light up the shadows we use the white side.
Beautifully done, Sasi. I love the black background against the white flower.
I love how you work with what you’ve got and get great photos out of it! It looks so lovely and delicate.
Absolutely beautiful. Love the composition and the lighting.
That is gorgeous!!! Beautiful lighting!!!
I agree the lighting is just gorgeous and the mix of soft pink and yellow tones is very nice
Lovely shot. I really like peonys. They small great and are so beautiful. Well done photo and great explanation of how to pull it off.
your flower photos are phenomenal!