Happy Valentines Day!

I wanted to do something special for valentines day this year and being the photographer that I am I decided to make a photo. Now normally I don’t like putting text in my photos but for this occasion I tried to become my own Halmark. For these photos I went to the store to buy some roses and the white vase that you see in the photos. The original idea was to find an old wooden work shack, preferably with a hole in the roof and light the scene such that it looked like moon light coming down on the roses. Seeing as it was hard to find what I had envisioned in my head I had to improvise a little bit. One of my new favorite places to shoot (the greenhouses behind the vet school at A&M ) I found a little wooden walkway over a moat, and decided that would work well for these photos. I wanted to focus the light on the roses and have everything else be pretty dark but I didn’t want the transition to be really harsh. So to increase the ambient light around the roses I bounced a speed light into a micro mini (white side) to diffuse the light and bring up the foreground. To light the rose I had a snooted speed light high and to the right. This pretty simple lighting worked very well.