Bill Gracey's photostream  

This is not the famous meat dress of Lady Gaga fame. Rather, it's a craft project my wife has been working on using a wire frame, moss and succulent material. If it gets a little water periodically, it will live. Mondo bizarro.

Lit with a SB600 in a snoot behind, an SB600 in a softbox camera right, and an SB700 in a softbox camera left. Power of the strobes set to manual and adjusted, as they say on the cooking shows, to taste. Flash triggered by the pop up flash on my D90 in commander mode.

Other plants and flowers that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant set. In the description, I list resources that I've used to learn how to light with off camera flash. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628079460544/...

My wife brought this home the other day to use as a decorative house plant. Their claim to fame is the leaves rather than the flowers it produces in summer.

I tried various way of lighting the plant, but the results I like the best was when I backlit the leaves by positioning a strobe (an SB600) underneath the plant pointed up towards the camera. The leaves seem to glow, and the color was much more intense with that type of light. I then used an SB700 in a softbox camera left and another SB600 in a softbox camera right for fill light. The strobes were triggered by the pop up flash on my D90 in commander mode.

Other plants and flowers that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant set. In the description, I list resources that I've used to learn how to light with off camera flash. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628079460544/...

The purple fountain grass came from the garden, and we certainly don't lack for dried weeds.

Backlighting provided by one SB700 in a softbox, camera left at 10 o'clock, and a SB600 in a Honl snoot hand held behind the plant and to the right at about 1 o'clock. Both strobes in manual mode and triggered by the pop up flash on my D90 in commander mode.

Other plants and flowers that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant set. In the description, I list resources that I've used to learn how to light with off camera flash. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628079460544/...

This title may be a stretch, but I saw these weeds backlit by the rising sun as I walked down to pick up my newspaper this morning, and I thought they were beautiful in the light.

I picked some of the weeds and brought them up to the house so that I could duplicate the lighting I had just seen. These were lit with an SB700 in a softbox behind and to the left of the weeds. The flash was triggered by the pop up flash on my D90 in commander mode.

Other plants and flowers that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant set. In the description, I list resources that I've used to learn how to light with off camera flash. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628079460544/...

OK, I know it's not a silk curtain morning glory, it's just a wildflower growing down by the creek on our property. As a matter of fact, until this morning I thought it was some form of poppy, but thanks to a couple of good folks on Flickr, I was straightened out on that. Still, the texture and color of the delicate petals, and their translucent quality, does remind me of silk curtains.

Strobist info: Lit with an SB700 is a softbox camera left, and an SB600 in a softbox camera right. The power was set to manual and adjusted until I had the balance I wanted with the light on the left being the dominant light source, and the light on the right providing fill light. Strobes were triggered by the pop up flash on my D90 in commander mode.

Other plants and flowers that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant set. In the description, I list resources that I've used to learn how to light with off camera flash. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628079460544/...