I can’t remember if I have mentioned this in the past or not, but one of my “clients” is my wife, a floral designer. (All you married folks know why I put the quotes on there…). As she does weddings or events, I usually help with setup and take photos for her portfolio of work. We have been working on putting her website together lately which means processing all the photos I have for her portfolio. I was working photos I took of her work at the The City Club of San Francisco. A wonderful location in the heart of the Financial District. Here are two of my favorites from that event.
What I loved about these two shots are the fact that I could use the background to augment the flower arrangements. With the top one I was able to place the staircase and mural to really draw you into the floral arrangement. The bottom one was placed in front of two windows that looked down a narrow space between the building, so you get this nice effect of infinity. I wasn’t happy with how the light took away from the flowers, but somethings just fall out of your control…
One of the things I find useful is to look at the different floral books that my wife has for inspiration and ideas for new ways of looking at flowers; this is really needed when doing an on location shoot like this. (In case you’re wonder what type of “floral books”, her most recent purchase was Flowers In Love.)
Terrific shots Greg, in particular the second one. I love the buildings and the lines converging to infinity. I was wondering how did you illuminate the flower arrangement.
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Thanks Rafa! I actually just had my trusty 580 Speedlight with a Strofen softener attached. Angled the flash at 45 degrees. This works well for most situations to give decent accent lighting…just enough to bring out the details in the flowers.
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