Hi from the Critiqure Club
I don't know ... lighting a shot like this with a flash onyl is like mixing all your colours together and then throwing them at the canvas in an attempt to paint a landscape: you're just starting from the wrong place. Try this: arrange flowers as desired. Point anglepoise, or desk light, or anything, at said flowers, but absolutely not from the same direction as the camera, and preferably at ninety degrees to it. Fix camera to something solid; really solid. If you have no tripod, then use a bag, or a table, anything, but don't hold it in your hand whatever you do. Set your aperture and exposure; if you use the automatic settings (and why would you, with that camera of yours?), set the focus and exposure from a half release of the shutter (unless the camera is to professional for that, in which case tough). Shoot photograph. Done. A thousand times better than this.
And seriously, PLEASE try this, and think about it. It'll improve your scores no end, I promise, and alos improve your enjoyment of photography. Really. Corss-lighting is everything in still lifes.
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