Flowers Anyone?

[Christopher Barrett]

Jeff,

As a commercial shooter who has many thousands of dollars worth of fancy lighting at his disposal, let me say I think you could actually do really well with nothing more than North light and a reflector. It will allow you to simplify your approach and really focus on the image-making. I'd get 2 rolls of seamless paper, 1 grey and 1 white in 4 foot widths (they're cheap). Place the background as far from the flowers as your space permits.

Links to paper at B&H White Charcoal

These are just suggestions, get whatever colors or shades you think may work well.

Lastly, I'm not sure If I posted a link before, but here's a recent blog post I made about my setup.



HTH,
-CB

[Salmo22]

Jeff,

As a commercial shooter who has many thousands of dollars worth of fancy lighting at his disposal, let me say I think you could actually do really well with nothing more than North light and a reflector. It will allow you to simplify your approach and really focus on the image-making. I'd get 2 rolls of seamless paper, 1 grey and 1 white in 4 foot widths (they're cheap). Place the background as far from the flowers as your space permits.

Links to paper at B&H White Charcoal

These are just suggestions, get whatever colors or shades you think may work well.

Lastly, I'm not sure If I posted a link before, but here's a recent blog post I made about my setup.



HTH,
-CB

Christopher:

Thank you very much for sharing your tremendous talent/knowledge. Your work absolutely exemplifies what I hope to emulate somewhere in the future - you've set a high bar. Until then, it will be a terrific journey. Thanks for the B&H links to background paper. And lastly, I have read your blog post, several times in fact, and learn something new each read. The images combined with your thorough explanation has been a valued asset.

Warm regards;

Jeff

[chassis]

Rose
Toyo 45AII
Kodak Portra 400

[callmebrick]

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Jeff,

I made a budget version of Chris' setup, maybe $30USD, and have been getting nice results: https://www.instagram.com/p/BSeoffLBXda/

2 5600k CFL bulbs in plastic tub with a white ripstop nylon diffuser, 2 foamcore reflector panels, and a black art display panel.

[callmebrick]

Attachment 165755

Testing a double exposure concept

Calumet 45N, Schneider 210mm f/5.6, Arista 100

[ndwgolf]

A couple using my new Chamonix 8x10

[ImSoNegative]

19inch red dot artar 8x10, x ray


url=https://flic.kr/p/VpTp9n][/url]img011 by john golden, on Flickr

[Punker]

Shared this scene a while back on Ektar. I shot this double on Velvia 100.

Osaka VW45FC, 120mm f/6.3.


California Poppies (on Velvia)
by Blurmageddon, on Flickr

[chassis]

Shared this scene a while back on Ektar. I shot this double on Velvia 100.

Osaka VW45FC, 120mm f/6.3.


California Poppies (on Velvia)
by Blurmageddon, on Flickr

Great colors and composition!

[ndwgolf]

Red Rose
Ilford HP5 8x10
D76..........under developed by 1 1/2 minutes (6 instead of the recommended 7 1/2 minutes)
f45
117 seconds exposure this included 1 2/3 extra stops for bellows extension.