D80 captures a lone Maple leaf

[gnagel]

I captured this image of a single Maple leaf this afternoon with my D80, Nikkor 105 VR and two flash units. The SB-800 was placed directly behind and below the leaf and was the primary lighting source. The SB-600 was placed to the side of the leaf to bring out some of the texture.

As always, comments are welcomed and appreciated.

1/20th @ f/13, ISO 100

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Thanks for looking...
Glenn

 

[openwide]

cool leaf ....lighting brings out the texture. the bottom right is hot. david

 

[Gale]

Very nice
I like that alot

 

[gnagel]

cool leaf ....lighting brings out the texture. the bottom right is hot. david

Thanks David.

Yeah...I think I might have positioned the flash unit too close to the bottom right of the leaf. I even tried darkening that area a bit using control points in Capture NX. But, I didn't want to lose any more of the texture.

I tried another one during the same session. I think this one might be just a little better in that regard:

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Thanks again,
Glenn

 

[gnagel]

Very nice
I like that alot

Thanks Gale

 

[catalyst]

Hey Glenn -

Nice work and execution here.

I'll guess that you dialed in some serious EV compensation on these - is that right?

Thanks,

Eric

 

[gnagel]

Hey Glenn -

Nice work and execution here. I'll guess that you dialed in some serious EV compensation on these - is that right?

Thanks Eric.

Actually, both of the photos that I've posted in this thread had EV compensations of +0.3 on the camera. The flash compensations were approximately -0.7 on the primary and -2.7 on the secondary flash.

Glenn

 

[bonnerkopf]

interesting study.