I scrounged a few meagre violets from along the side of someones driveway while I was out walking. When I came home this wine glass with water in it was sitting on the bench, leftover from the night before when I was trying to manage the ISO alcohol consumption levels by have a BFD (Booze Free Day). I figure if you’re going to drink water instead of wine there’s nothing to say you can’t still use a wine glass. Anyway, that has nothing to do with the photo other than the wine glass was sitting on the bench and I popped the Violets in the water to keep them alive until I figured out how I was going to photograph them. As I looked at the Violets waiting for divine inspiration to hit me, I thought they looked quite cute in the wine glass and I remembered seeing some refraction shots where light bends and creates cool leffects and ‘voila! Bob’s your Aunty’ or some thing like that.

I would have liked to play around with flash but all my flash triggers are locked in a cupboard at RMIT and I can’t get access in the lockdown, so window light it was. Managing reflections on the glass (using black card) while still trying to keep light on the flowers was a bit of a bother. This also affected the overall exposure which also affected the colour of the cardboard in the background. It’s far from perfect but it’s good enough for an Alphabet Challenge.

I bought a vase at an Op Shop last week (you’ve no idea how excited I was to see an Op Shop open!) so I also did a Violets in a Vase shot because I feel like I get double points for alliteration in my art.

Fuji X-T2
ISO 200 - 60mm - F/5.6 - 0.9sec