Flowers 1
This post is about one single still life with a magnificent bouquet of roses in very specific lighting. It almost suggests Renaissance-style chiaroscuro. This was also a lesson how less is often more.
I've taken hundreds of closeups of flowers. It's another theme where budding photographers can flaunt their skill. At first I thought I'd go through all flower photos I've taken these 18 months, and then select the best. This turned out to be impossible soon enough.
When you compile an album of photos, music, scents, artwork, less is often more. When you write, you might want to polish your text by removing words.
So, instead of a futile days-long browsing, I pointed at a single album. All the photos show the same magnificent bouquet of roses. The bouquet is placed under the dinner table lamp. The light is confined to the table itself. As a result, the top of the roses is lit, while everything else is in the dark.
This setting makes for a still life not unlike the ones in the Renaissance and Baroque eras, where painters meticulously worked out the setting using one, maybe two very specific sources of light. However, when you point a camera on this still life, the dynamic range of the lighting will be very wide, and it's a challenge for most simpler cameras. You do best if you use manual lighting settings: in an automatic mode, the camera will want to lighten up the darker spots.
So, this is little more than an exercise in photography using unusual lighting. But as such, it's very intentional.
Photos were taken using a Canon EOS RP camera, and they were not processed or modified afterwards.
There are no descriptions for these photos, since they are all about the same theme, using different angles and zoom settings.
