Passion flower
Passion flower image, excerpted from project creating an interactive object movies of flowers being dissected.
Passion flower image, excerpted from project creating an interactive object movies of flowers being dissected.
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Behind The Lens
Location
This photo is excerpted from a collaborative project with biology professor Dr. Benjamin Montgomery at USC Upstate, where I am a physics professor. We are making interactive object rotations of flowers, where different states of dissection can be seen from all angles. This is a passion flower, indigenous to our area and picked beside a hiking trail on campus.Time
This flower is mounted in an apparatus which rotates it under computer control so that it is photographed from angles at a regular interval. This is just one selected photo from the project.Lighting
This was shot using a macro ring-light mounted on the lens, with a diffuser on the ring. A black background was used and knocked out using the Photoshop plugin Primatte Chromakey from Digital Anarchy.Equipment
Lens: Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 60mm f/2.8 Macro Lens Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M1 Kaidan MDT-19 computer-controlled turntable Digi-Slave L-ring lightInspiration
Creating better educational materials for biology students so that they can visualize flower dissection.Editing
I did the usual corrections for color temperature, exposure, contrast, etc in Lightroom, background removed using the Photoshop plugin Primatte Chromakey from Digital Anarchy.In my camera bag
Olympus OM-D E-M1 and Olympus m.Zuiko micro-4/3 prime lenses (12mm, 17mm, 45mm, 75mm) and sometimes the big boy 75-300mm zoom.Feedback
Practice your macro photo techniques and use a ring light.
