Black Magic

[d_ip]

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Shot with the D70 and Sigma 105 EX DG. Comments are well appreciated. Thanks in Advance :wink:

 

[greyflash]

Wow, I'll say your welcome here. Absolutely gorgeous image. Tell me about the reflection, is it black plastic?? I do have one critique if you don't mind, that is to ask why you let the plant touch the top of the frame. Even a 1/4 inch would have kept it contained, much like the bottom. The colors are very nice and the focus spot on. Excellent.

 

[beaucamera]

Absolutely Marvelous, Shahed! I really want to know how you did this! How did you get these effects?

Welcome to Nikon Cafe!

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[daodang]

Hi d_ip, simple, clean and very attractive picture. The colors, the reflection and the black background all contribute to its attractiveness. And if you dont' mind, putting the flower a bit further away from the frame will make it perfect. My regards

 

[d_ip]

Wow, I'll say your welcome here. Absolutely gorgeous image. Tell me about the reflection, is it black plastic?? I do have one critique if you don't mind, that is to ask why you let the plant touch the top of the frame. Even a 1/4 inch would have kept it contained, much like the bottom. The colors are very nice and the focus spot on. Excellent.

How about now?

 

[PhotoDawg]

I have one word for this picture............Gorgeous!!

 

[greyflash]

How about now?

Much better, excellent in fact.

 

[daodang]

Absolutely Marvelous, Shahed! I really want to know how you did this! How did you get these effects?

Welcome to Nikon Cafe!

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Yeah, excellent. Looking at the first version, I didn't notice the water droplets on the petals. These droplets give a very nice touch to the flower indeed.

 

[d_ip]

Black background setup

Here is how my setup looks like

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I used black velvet on the background; it doesn’t have the light reflection and is darker than black foam core. On the bottom, I used a black 20"x20" glass (20x20 glass and can of black spray paint). I did some cool effects with that, here's the link
http://lenscapephoto.smugmug.com/gallery/88668
...learned from shutterbug magazine.

 

[beaucamera]

Re: Black background setup

Thanks, Shahed. Your talent never ceases to amaze me!

 

[Rich Gibson]

My gosh, that's beautiful! It's breath taking. Thanks for joining the forum and showing us your work.

Rich

 

[StuSimmo]

Superb

 

[obelix]

Pretty outstanding Shahed. I am very impressed.

 

[Gale]

I looked in the gallery also. Boy nothing has the effect like the black glass. That is a wow effect for sure.

Beautiful images.

Thank you for sharing.

Regards
Gale

 

[JerseyJay]

Shahed,

Did you use flash ?

Looking at your initial picture I assumed there was above light but your setup doesn't have one.

 

[d_ip]

Shahed,

Did you use flash ?

Looking at your initial picture I assumed there was above light but your setup doesn't have one.

Not for this shot.