Strobist Information:
I couldn't help noticing that Flickr is desperately short of flower pictures so I figured that it was my duty as a contributor to this fine photographic resource to add a couple more! LOL
The flowers in question were all purchased from the Brisbane Sunday flower market and the pictures will eventually be incorporated into Keoula's spring dress collection. In the meantime, they are making a guest appearance in the nickwheeleroz 08 Flickr photo collection. :)
I tried a variety of backgrounds, but the 'brief' was to shoot them on white which I mostly stuck too. I used a couple of the tile boards from my white background trials to shoot against. I placed my large DIY softbox as the main light and used a second diffused SB-28 to light the flowers from below. I placed a third Sunpak 383 pointing towards the back tile board to give the white background.
All the pictures were taken with a variation on this setup. The blue background in the second yellow flower picture was created by turning the background light off so the white went to grey and then setting the white balance to tungsten in Lightroom.
The yellow flowers were also in a bit of a sorry state so there was quite a lot of touching up in Paint Shop Pro as well as the cloning of the odd petal here and there to fill in a few gaps! :)
As an aside, if anyone knows what the purple or yellow flowers are called, please do drop a note in the comments. It would be good to give the pictures a better title than 'yellow flower'! :) The purple flowers also had pink and yellow variations in the bunch and the petals felt like paper.
Update: Thank you to everyone for identifying the gerbera's and statis, I have updated the titles and tags accordingly.
Pictures here:
Purple Statice
Tulips
Purple Statice
A Bunch of Yellow Gerberas
Yellow Gerbera
Purple Iris
Learn how to light: www.strobist.com
patrícia soransso , bogdog Dan, and 148 other people added this photo to their favorites.
View 20 more comments
lakhyanz 48 months ago | reply
Jangu Jatt
Rozbeth 48 months ago | reply
This is great, I love to shoot macro flowers (I'm a florist) and use the bathroom sometimes for the white affect but will definitely take some tips from here :-) thanks
Tony Carlos Br 47 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Flickr Hive Mind, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Search interestingness ... 2008-08-03
guitinhvaochiecla 47 months ago | reply
A
Nuragic Man~A bit busy 47 months ago | reply
Very fine pic!
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called All beautiful shots and many more., and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Thanks.
1888junkteam? 46 months ago | reply
excellent image!
yudhisetiawan37 46 months ago | reply
Apprput:-)
Jose A Perez [deleted] 45 months ago | reply
Nice shot!
Take a look at my photostream!
www.flickr.com/photos/26455718@N03/
lovelec29@yahoo.com.ph 45 months ago | reply
:-)
rajesh9922 45 months ago | reply
nice photo collection.
photographs-images.blogspot.com/
sasangi.nilusa 44 months ago | reply
Flowers
marthavannassau 44 months ago | reply
When I look at this picture, I feel, it's a beautyfull silent image.
s_tora 43 months ago | reply
Bems
Gabriella Carta (Italy) 42 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called LA NATURA VISTA DAL NOSTRO OBIETTIVO**SOLO FIORI** ONLY FLOWERS*, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
utpoldoc 42 months ago | reply
L
ishika_ishika61 40 months ago | reply
Gud
ty_chantha 39 months ago | reply
J
Noémie ♥ 38 months ago | reply
Wooo, goood !
abubakarmustapha12 37 months ago | reply
nice and beauty
Gozdesaa 26 months ago | reply
Beautiful! Please add your photo
“Flowers and/or Bugs"