Here's flowers for you.....

6.9.18 Today we walked through Yewdale and Guards Woods.....the fungi are truly fabulous

Monday 3rd September  Circumstances dictated that rather than a walk , my photography was confined to my make-shift studio.....otherwise known as the spare bedroom. I have various options and chose to take some shots of flowers against a black velvet backdrop. The backdrop is made from a sheet of black velvet hung over a curtain rail. Flowers were positioned in florist's foam  on a small table. My camera, Nikon D810 fitted with a 105 mm macro lens and seated on a tripod. On this occasion I used a small Nikon Speedlight flash unit. I tend to use my camera on Manual .....so with the flash sit fitted I set  shutter speed at 250 and the aperture at anything from f22 to f8 depending on the result. The flowers.....some from the garden and a rather lovely dahlia I bought in the village. I have recently bought myself an L bracket  which enables me to switch from shooting  landscape  to portrait  quickly and easily......don't know why I have waited so long to get one of these.