Flowers

While we were at Tom and Ginny's last night I photographed these flowers they have growing in their backyard. The over cast skies made it nice for some diffused even light.

Fall Leaf

I had wanted to try to do more of a close up picture of a solo leaf with a totally black background, so yesterday when were were out I grabbed a few leaves to start working with on this. The leaf was held by a clothes line pin that was attached to a stand, then I framed the shot so you would not see the clothes pin. I had my flash about 3 feet off to the right with a snoot on it, something like this but for mine I used cardboard. Basically the snoot allowed me to have the light mainly hitting the leaf and nothing else, so between that and a dark towel I had further in the background I was sure to get the solid black background I wanted. The other thing I did was to place a piece of vellum drawing paper in front of the flash to filter the light and give it a softer look.
I have seen this type of photo done in the past with flowers and I would like to do more and put together a series of a few images together.