3/52 - Floating Lillies

Well, I'm late again this week getting a picture posted. This picture is kind of weak sauce, but I figured I'd post it anyway. I tried shooting these flowers about 30 times and didn't get a picture that I really liked. I just couldn't get the light to work and my white background wasn't coming off as white and I was just having all kinds of problems. So, I stopped for a while, came back to it a while later and shot a few more frames.

I ended up getting this picture and liked it more than the other ones I shot. I'm still not crazy about it, but it'll do for now.

To get this shot, I used two pieces of white poster board for the background and a white piece of plexiglass for the base. I took two pieces of white wire hangers and cut them to make little stands for the flower, to get it up off of the ground and look like it was floating in the air. Later, I removed the stands in Photoshop.

I had the flower in front of a window, which I thought would give it pretty good light, but since the window isn't big enough, it was casting shadows on the white background and making it uneven. So, I put the whole set up in the middle of the kitchen counters and just shot with a long exposure to blow out the white background and make it look a little more uniform.

So, that's about it. Nothing too exciting.

Let me know what you think.

T