Black Magic

d_ip · Mar 18, 2005

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

greyflash · Mar 18, 2005

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 · Mar 18, 2005

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 · Mar 18, 2005

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 · Mar 18, 2005

greyflash said:
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 · Mar 18, 2005

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

greyflash · Mar 18, 2005

d_ip said:
How about now?

Much better, excellent in fact.

daodang · Mar 19, 2005

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

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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 · Mar 19, 2005

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 · Mar 19, 2005

Re: Black background setup

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

Rich Gibson · Mar 19, 2005

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

Rich

StuSimmo · Mar 19, 2005

Superb

obelix · Mar 20, 2005

Pretty outstanding Shahed. I am very impressed.

Gale · Mar 20, 2005

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 · Mar 20, 2005

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 · Mar 21, 2005

Jay Luto said:
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.