KIRK TUCK's article "WHAT TO DO WITH A NASTY, GREY, OVERCAST SKY" rock. I don't have any Speedlites left so I had to try Kirk's trick in other way. I used a household bulb as my main light and underexposed the cloudy outdoor light. As my background I had a transparent white diffuser. Cameras white balance set to tungsten. And I came up with this picture:




Thanks Kirk for sharing your tricks with me. Your article made me to think of other possibilities and this was one of them.

SWEET! Nicely done...please give some details on what you did.

love the colors and would also like to know specifically what you did.

I set my camera on a tripod, WB to tungsten, main light a house hold bulp (very orange colored light) then outdoor light is a cloudy light (very blue light). When I have my camera set to tungsten, then a digital blue filter is aded in the camera. That means I can control my fourground, set the exposure for my flower, then by having the background underexposed I will end up with a very blue colored background. I think it's very cool.

I boosted the color even more in Camera Raw.

huh. It looks like a blue card behind the flower. Interesting.

Nicely done Robert!