Calla 2

Hmmm ... should I really tell you?

Normally I should tell you, that I used some fancy > USD 1000,- flashhead with spot-former here .... but I didn't .. instead I did some improvisation ;)

ok ... the only lightsources I have are two 500 watt halogen lights (on 15 by 20 cm reflectors) ... what I needed here was a spotlight, so I took some white cardbord of about 80 x 120 cm, folded this into a cone with one diameter of about 30 cm and the other of about 4 cm.

I laid the calla - and some leave which doesn't normally belong to it, but fit in the scene - onto black cardboard ...

I then put this white-cardboard-cone - which was about one meter long - over the reflector of one of those lights (and I used just a single light here) and got a nice directable spot ... the only thing I had to manage was to guide this "spot" (which wasn't fixed to the reflector) and trigger the release (cord) at the same time ;)))

[i hope you can imagine this daring construction from my verbal description ;)]

must have looked kinda funny, but I got what I wanted ... and it's only the result that counts ;))

bye,

Ingo

I somehow like this photo even though some people (in real-life ;))

critizise the missing texture in the petals. What's your opinion?

I like your photo a lot. One easy and very cheap way to get lighting like this is to use a slide projector with a thin slit or small hole in an otherwise opaque slide.

Bill

Thanks for the tip ... I really have to try to get an old slide-projector from a flea market ...

Thanks,

Ingo

Looks gorgeous to me.

What developer did you use?? Always had trouble with FP4 being to flat for me.

Scott:

I used Ilfosol S in standard time ... ;))

Ingo