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I took this photo at home, at the gardenTime
Although it was at home garden, I didn't was sure if this flower will last for long, so even it was nearly 5:00 pm and there was not too much light, I decide to made the photo that day, then bring me the idea to just "paint with light" taking advantage of the low light, instead of searching for big amounts of light that a flash could give.Lighting
I was looking for some different lighting approach to this flower. I want to do backlighting and "painting with light" at the same time. Didn't want to light it with flash, in order to just get light from the back and also move the light wile exposing at the same time. I used a flashlight (The low and constant light from my iPhone flashlight and measure the correct expose for it) The low ambience light aloud me to see what I was doing comfortably and not interfere with the light used to expose.Equipment
I used a Canon 7D camera, Macro 100mm f2.8L , Manfrotto 055 tripod with a 229 head, Canon remote shutter TC-80N3 and the phone's flashlightInspiration
The beauty of the flower, but looking for a different approach, primarily the backlightEditing
Some post-processing was necessary due to background little exposed, and turn to black and white conversionIn my camera bag
Normaly bring one camera body, a 10-18mm lens, 24-105mm and a 100-400mm, 32GB memories. If want to go light, I just carry with the 24-105mm. I try to not carry the flash, in general I don't like to use it. Contrary, in the studio all kind of light modifiers are usedFeedback
Think is very easy to backlight and really "paint with light" with a flashlight, they are easy to guide and handle, experiment with exposure time, side light, down to up guided light, backlight, etc, any "unusual" direction you experiment, could give nice results. It could be an exposure of fractions of second, to seconds or even minutes. Note that lately "painting with light" has been used to describe photographs of lights in motion ( like the ones made with some strokes of light with any source ), I think this is NOT painting with light, that is -long exposure-. I think the correct painting with light meaning, is to give an specific illumination to the subject, not the exposition of the light source itself.
