First Light Breaks on the Daffodil

[Roman Kurywczak]

Got a chance to do some photography today. Decided to pick one of my daffodils. The title is a bit of a trick.....as this was done indoors because it was very windy outside. I used my 10 million candle power flashlight to backlight this......reflector and small flashlight to bring out the shadow area some more. I purposefully wanted the BG to go black.....though normally I don't want that.....but here because of the strong/dramatic light.....I wanted the flower as the star. All tripod mounted with the 10 second timer engaged.
Canon 1D Mark 3 with the Sigma 180 macro for 0.8 seconds at f29 and ISO 200. Manually focused.

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Beautiful Roman!
Love that black bg and that light hitting the orange makes me think of fire. Great macro.

[Julie Kenward]

That's about as perfect as they come. Dang. I'm going to have to really figure out something cool to do with those Gerberas now. :eek::D:eek:

[Fabs Forns]

The queen of drama that flower is :)

Stunning as presented, my friend!

[denise ippolito]

Very nice Roman, I love the black BG and the daffodil just glows.

[Richard Lovison]

Beautiful lighting technique and composition Roman. It's a stunning image.

Was your WB somewhere around 5300K to give you the warm light effect with your flashlight?

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey Richard,
I use AWB as I can adjust in PP with Brezebrowser. That 10 million candle power(Cabela's) flashlight has 2 seeting. The high setting has a very white light. The lower setting is very warm/orange, so that is where the temp comes from.

[Joseph Martines]

Great capture.

I really like all the drama of the curves, angles, and wonderful color.

Thanks for sharing.

[Ed Cordes]

Graceful bloom with dramatic lighting. The black BG is perfect.

[Gus Cobos]

Well composed and executed Roman...I like it as presented...superb...:cool: