White/Yellow Amaryllis

Lovely great shot and the black cloth background makes it really stand out. Best wishes Trixie

Beautiful shot!

Nice contrast

Many thanks for your comments.

I had some issues with the contrast particularly with the lighting. Initially I was worried that it looked too dark but although moving the lighting in closer achieved a brighter image it also resulted in some loss of detail so as seems to happen quite a lot with my photography it was the first attempt that came out best .

You can see an image of the whole plant, shot at the same time, here.

Glyn

Glyn, sometimes i put my plants near a window if it's not to bright, if it is you can difuse the light with a piece of netting or something, the same with any light you use as long as it's safe and i put on as many ceiling lights as i can.

Many thanks Maria.

We keep this plant on a window sill behind a net curtain and although I have to move it further into the room to photograph it, often, just as you describe, there is enough natural light, particularly on a sunny day, where this window catches the morning sun.

Unfortunately today it was grey and overcast so I fell back to using a couple of low energy daylight lamps but for me this always seems to create issues with exactly where to place them. Today, with the later attempts, I certainly had some problems when trying to improve the lighting on the left-hand side with a little burn-out removing some detail on the right hand side.

The best of the later attempts can be seen here.

Next time I will have a go with your diffuser suggestion.

Thanks again.

Best regards,

Glyn