There are many flowers with interesting and photogenic shapes, but one of my favourites is the humble cyclamen.
The curved, layered petals are ideal for a bit of macro photography with a wide open aperture for limited depth of field, allowing the rich colours to blur into the background and emphassing the shape and flow of the petal edges.
I used a plain black card as a background to set the delicate mauve of the flower against, and used heavily diffused window light on the flower itself, to prevent the colours and highlights blowing out as they would have done under more harsh lighting.
Filename - cyclamen 01.jpg
Camera - Canon A1
Lens - 50mm prime plus extension tubes
Film - Fuji Velvia ISO50
Exposure - No idea!
Location - My kitchen, North Wales
This image - 511x800px JPEG
Original - 2400dpi scan from 35mm transparency
Conversion - Adobe Lightroom
Comments - Tripod used to prevent camera movement during long exposure
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