Lily Study #1

In a slow period from my day job, I started setting up floral shots in

the studio. Shooting the flowers that I would pick up from the

market, I noticed one week that there was one Lily bud that didn't

have the power to expand like it's others on the same stem. I let the

sun dry it for a day, while still on the stem. It's last push for

growth in the direct sun, curled a petal, as if to say it was ready.

 

In a failed attempt to shoot this lonely flower on the stem, the bud

snapped free, and the petals still in tack, fell into my hand.

Holding it with both hands, like a fallen goldfish, I searched for

something to lay it on. Standing in the kitchen, I looked to the

sink, where a baking sheet from the night before was catching light

from the window. I placed the remains of the Lily on the baking

sheet, and carted it to the shoot table in the studio, where I began

to replicate the light of a window, and capture the last moments of

this beautiful flowers.

 

As it turned out, it's one of my favorite still life flora images, and

for me, best represents my studio work at this time in my life.

 

.4 Second exposure. Two mini-moles, with barn doors almost all the

way closed. One bouncing light off of a cyan card, and the other

raking across the pan. Slight fill with cuc'd MagLight in black room.

..and 1/2 a bottle of wine for me. ;)

 

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24-70L

Good colors and light , I like the rotation idea

Great color. Really like it.

Well it was that half bottle of wine that made all the difference!! Well done!

One of my favourit subjects withered flowers in a new light ! In good light, nice composition and putting it on baking paper was a very good idea.