I had a rough setup in my head and decided i wanted to try use off camera flash in TTL to light up the subject.
Firstly i finaly got the SB600 in wireless TTL, the first time like this since i got it about a month ago! anyway, i managed it and fired a few test shots.
I mounted the 600 on a tripod to the left and my D90 was in portrait so had on camera flash firing from the right. I turned off the main light in order to make WB settings easier to determine and then played with a couple of aperture settings to get the right exposure and DOF.
I managed to get a few that looked reasonable, I exchanged the piece of black card i had as a backdrop for a black throw we have and then it all began to come together.
I adjusted curves to blacken the background and 'burned' the clips out which held the flower, you could just make them out. I created a duplicate layer and erased through to bring back the shadow on the top of the stem as the curves had make it solid black.
Below is the final result. Pretty pleased for 15 mins of photos and a few minutes of editing!
