I wanted to do something different than the usual flower photography (mainly due to the fact there’s nothing new blooming just yet), so thought I’d try some flowers on a white background in softer light than the death ball in the sky. I’ve got a soft light cube… somewhere. (It’s the shed. It’s in the shed. It may never be seen again, though the preserving pan turned up at the weekend, so it may not be a lost cause.) As it wasn’t accessible, I decided to do some quick and dirty experimentation. I’ve put what I did below the thumbnails with a picture. Different plugin, the other one seems to have been abandoned and there were some annoying caching issues. No extra photos on Flickr as this was a trial and didn’t produce a whole pile of images.
The improvised setup to take these consisted of my desk, the LED strip light under the monitor shelf, sheets of printer paper and two Aukey LED night lamps. The camera was the SX600, because that lives on the desk. I’m kind of impressed that they turned out as well as they did, I only tweaked with the brightness and contrast and cropped them. The phone seemed to do some autocorrecting and made it much dimmer than it actually was, but it’s just for illustration.
