Rhynchostylis gigantea

[Rosim_in_BR]

Originally Posted by SP2340

Beautiful piece!! How do you get the background so black in the photo? Thanks!

Originally Posted by dgenovese1

Mauro...it is beautiful, and like you, I agree that the "few" spots does give this specimen an alluring quality.

By the way, like SP2340, I too have been wondering how you get your photo background to be so black. I sometimes use a black foamboard as a background, but it usually doesn't show as contrasting as in your photos. Nice technique!

I use a large black cloth as background and always take my shots in natural light, preferably in the morning, or late in the afternoon sometimes. To get good black background, the cloth must be clean and free o waves, I mean well stretched. Then you play with the distance you place the flower from the cloth, the distance you place the camera from the flower and the depth of field of your camera. As a general rule, the farther the camera is from the flower, the more are the chances the background gets in focus; the closer the camera is from the flower the more the background tends to be out of focus producing a uniform black. The contrast you need to adjust on your camera

[dgenovese1]

Originally Posted by Rosim_in_BR

I use a large black cloth as background and always take my shots in natural light, preferably in the morning, or late in the afternoon sometimes. To get good black background, the cloth must be clean and free o waves, I mean well stretched. Then you play with the distance you place the flower from the cloth, the distance you place the camera from the flower and the depth of field of your camera. As a general rule, the farther the camera is from the flower, the more are the chances the background gets in focus; the closer the camera is from the flower the more the background tends to be out of focus producing a uniform black. The contrast you need to adjust on your camera

Ross,

Thanks very much for your photography tips. It seems like I'll need to get a good size piece of black felt and stretch it over a frame...and keep the camera as close to the subject as possible. Hopefull this will work as well for me as what you are doing.