Amaryllis by window light
My wife received this Amaryllis as a Christmas gift from a friend. It began blooming just in the last week. This is a very simple to make photo, but hard to pass up, sitting as it is on our dining room table. I simply slid the flower to the window side of the table, turned the near blossom slightly toward the window, placed a folding divider to block as much window light from reaching the background as possible, and photographed this with a Canon EF 100mm F2.8 macro lens set to F5.6 on a Canon EOS 7D at ISO 100. The snow covered ground outside the window enhanced the effect of the window light. I tweaked the contrast and saturation in post production with Capture One Pro ver. 5 then added a vignette. Voila! The photo will be a nice remembrance of a gift from a friend.