Confession

I have more daisy photos to post, but right now I'm not as happy with them as I was. I'll get back to them later. I think. Instead, here are roses I picked up this weekend. I was NOT going to buy any flowers. I had my mom's car for the weekend and I was going to go out exploring. And then I got sick and when I went to buy some cold medicine, these were STARING me in the face. Since my immune system was so low, I didn't even try to resist. :)

I have a confession to make...I don't...know...anything about...studio lighting. Whew, there I said it. I mean as far as using studio lights and multiple flashes, etc. go. It's always gone over my head. And also, for a long time, I could barely afford film, let alone extras like lights and flashes, so I didn't really have a chance to experiment and learn with it. Which is how I pick things up. Sure I used some fill flash here or there and bounced flash once in a while. But nothing fancy. So over the years, I've learned to work with natural light. It was a cheap light source. :)

I studied it. How it works. When it looks best. How to use it to create effects. How it changes colors from dawn to dusk. How great cloudy days can be. How harsh it can be. I've come to love natural light and all it's nuances so even though I can afford more toys now, I haven't bothered to get them. So these were taken indoors, in front of my sliding glass door, with natural light.

Stats - D200, 70-180 macro lens, ISO 100, on a tripod.

1 - 105mm 1/20s @ F5.6
2 - 105mm 2sec @ F36