Love Your Curves and All Your Edges

Flower fine art photography of a white blooming Iris over a dark black background. The iris flower comes in many colors but white irises are closely... more

by Juergen Roth

Title

Love Your Curves and All Your Edges

Artist

Juergen Roth

Medium

Photograph - Photography

Description

Flower fine art photography of a white blooming Iris over a dark black background. The iris flower comes in many colors but white irises are closely associated with purity and innocence. The delicate white blossom demonstrates honesty, purity, and perfection. The white iris flower expresses a beautiful combination of elegance and innocence.

"A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even one solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it." ~ Vita Sackville-West

Last week I had the pleasure of photographing white iris flowers that had lots of floral character. It was a great stumble upon in a local grocery store that allowed me to add a couple of additional fine art pictures to my existing flower Fine Art Photography gallery collection. Our dining room window faces east and provides incredible light in the morning hours. As a base for the flower I use a simple chair that I position in front of the window. Because I prefer working with natural light I avoid flash and use white card boards or a reflector to direct light towards the darker areas of the floral when it is facing away from the window. Adjusting the white boards or reflector to explore the impact on the lighting and better control the light on the flower is a wonderful learning experience. It is an extremely delicate process and one has to watch carefully to notice the full impact on the floral photography image. In the final flower close up photograph of this iris I positioned the flower in the best possible way that allowed the right amount of back-lighting leading to a more pleasing floral image. I chose a small aperture setting (large f-stop number) of f/32 that provided sufficient Depth of Field and an exposure time of 3.2 seconds at ISO100. Focal lens was about 300mm. During the digital post processing steps I removed dust spots, minimally adjusted contrast and color saturation before sharpening the final flower photography image of this white iris flower.

All photographs are available for digital and print use at www.ExlploringTheLight.com ~ rights managed. Please contact me direct with any questions or request.

My best, Juergen

Fine Art Prints: www.RothGalleries.com
Digital Image Use: www.ExploringTheLight.com
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March 10th, 2014