Back Lit Bird Of Paradise Flowers In The Garden With Honey Bee
These bird of paradise flowers growing in our garden were back lit by the earl morning sun this morning.

In order to document them and leave out all of the distracting stuff near the flowers, I used camera settings that caused the background to go dark.  I then lit the side of the flowers away from the sun with a Yongnuo manual flash in an 8.6 inch Lastolite soft box positioned on a light stand at camera right.  The flash and my camera were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N.

Other pictures that I've taken of Birds of Paradise flowers can be seen in my cleverly titled Birds of Paradise album.
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157631967781801">www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157631967781801</a>

Other plants, flowers, fruit or objects that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant set. For each image in the set, and there are over 1400 of them,  I describe how I set up the lighting for that particular shot.  <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628079460544/">www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628079460544/</a>
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