Photgraphing Flowers

Gemma bought me home some gorgeous lillies yesterday and today I thought I would photograph them using my trusty white polystyrene as a background.

So here's my process:

Window is situated behind me.

Polystyrene is on an angle to the window to eliminate as much shadow as possible appearing directly behind the flowers.

I was using my 24-105mm lens. (I could have used my 50mm lens here too but I wanted a more wide angle shot that I could crop down).

Then I played in Photoshop and cropped some of the photos to suit.  This next photo I have not altered at all except to increase the exposure level to get a nice crisp white background....perfect!

On another image I played with some textures and colour overlays.  Then I added some subtle brushes to another layer and ended up with this.



Nice isn't it? - very subtle and romantic like.

Then I combined a couple of different ones and came up with this....

Give it a go.....try using a white sheet if you don't have any polystyrene or a pale coloured wall.  Make sure you are between your light source and your subject to get the best results....but most of all just have fun!