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Windblown
posted Sunday, 29 July 2012, 14:37 (+0800), by Martin
The remains of a windblown dandelion clock, photographed in my back yard, using the fantastic Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 macro lens.
The black background was achieved by stopping down the lens aperture to f/14, so ambient light wasn't contributing at all to the exposure. A Canon 580EX flash was attached to the camera's hotshoe, with a home-made flash reflector providing a diffuse source of light.

windblown
windblown
back yard, Western Australia
Canon EOS 50D, 100mm f/2.8 macro @100mm, 1/160 sec, f/14, ISO200
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Comments:
Richard wrote at 2016-08-23 22:22

The black background here makes this stunning! I'm still not quite sure I understood how you accomplished that.

Martin wrote at 2016-08-23 22:26

@Richard: By stopping down the aperture to f/14, it lets very little ambient light into the lens, so ambient light isn't contributing to the exposure at all, thus resulting in a black background.

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