Another busy day, another quickie-picture. At least the sun was out so John won’t whine about us not going out in the rain. Since I didn’t have any babies or dogs to shoot, and plants seem to be an easy target, I looked around for a quick subject.
I spied the plant my wife had placed in front of the window with the obscure-glass. The sun was shining from behind it and gave it a nice warm glow.

I broke out my D200 and my 105mm Micro-Nikkor, and got it ready. Now, since the plant was lit from behind…and I didn’t want a silhouette, I broke out the Calumet gold-reflector and set it up on my Calumet disc-holder.

This set-up the inside of the plant to at least show some detail. Next I broke out some red fome-core and placed that to the left of the plant.

Wanting to diffuse the background glass as much as possible, I set the f-stop fairly wide to around 6.3. Since it was fairly dark, and I didn’t want to bring out my flash, I cranked the ISO up to 320.

I asked the plant to hold still and smile…and that’s all I have to say about that.