By anil on 2008-04-16 18:19:37 - 5 months and 26 days ago.

Flower power

0080416The almost-setting sun was behind this flower [can anyone ID it?] and made a kind of 'halo' of the spiky stamens. The background was too bright, I was shooting into the sun light, so if I exposed correctly for the background I lost all detail in the flower. Using a pair of warmed-up [TLA1 gel filters] SB800s off-camera added light into the flower nicely and I was able to darken the distracting background with a fast shutter speed. This image was taken while waiting for the 2 elusive Sunbirds to turn up.... they did but they disappeared as fast as they could when they spotted me looking at them through a big lens.

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