I've been doing some flower photography as seen on another thread.

Natural light with two black tiles, very simply produced

Great to see your experimentation John, culminating in this excellent shot - keep em coming

Thank you davidwoshere , pschlute and Barrie for your comments

Very well put together Glyn

Taking on board the constructive comments from the other day, I've gone back and re-shot the rose against the black tile.

Exactly the same set up as before, no flash, just available light in the last 15 minutes, very little processing other than a few dust spots on the tile and a crop.

Thanks for the comments, I did set out to have the roses against a plain white background so I've achieved what I set out to do, I appreciate the comments where you suggest its stark and clinical, I'll try over the next day or so the roses's against the black tiles.

Well captured 😎

Trying to find things to do rather than just sit about and watch TV after the 1 hour exercise we're allowed, done all the gardening etc

A table top studio, A3 piece of paper as the BG taped to the kitchen cabinet, a white tile as the base, 2 flashguns on remote, one on the BG, one on the subject.

These are pretty much straight from the camera

Firstly the setup










Then swap the white BG for 2 black tiles with a helping of natural light,

The set up




and the image, again pretty much straight from the camera

Superb images from an old lens, well converted and shot

Hmmmm.... ive bitten the bullet, but not on the Scottish one, I decided to pay a little more and support SRS, plus they offered the normal 2 year warranty and for me, should there be any issue in that time I can drive there and get it sorted.

So I'll have my boxed Sigma 70 - 200 F2.8 up for sale on here first fairly soon