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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · flower photography backgrounds

several flower photographers sometimes use a printed background behind a flower to produce a blurred background. You can of course make your own. Does anyone sell these or the print you can attache to a poster board?

Jul 25, 2024 at 09:44 PM

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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · flower photography backgrounds

You could easily make your own by taking an out of focus, wide open shot of...wait for it...flowers.

Jul 26, 2024 at 09:14 AM

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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · flower photography backgrounds

don't have a printer where I am.

Jul 28, 2024 at 06:12 PM

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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · flower photography backgrounds

I was at Longwood Gardens and noticed a couple working as a team, photographing the flowers. The guy focused on a flower while the woman pulled colored pieces of card stuck from a 3 ring binder. She would hold a blue card behind the flower, click! Then a green card, click! Then white, click. Then black, click. Then a mottled blue and white, like defocused clouds. Click. Next flower, blue card, green card, white, black, mottled. Next flower. Same thing. They worked quickly, efficiently and no discussion. I assumed that they were selling stock photos.

Jul 28, 2024 at 06:26 PM

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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · flower photography backgrounds

jmckayak wrote:
I was at Longwood Gardens and noticed a couple working as a team, photographing the flowers. The guy focused on a flower while the woman pulled colored pieces of card stuck from a 3 ring binder. She would hold a blue card behind the flower, click! Then a green card, click! Then white, click. Then black, click. Then a mottled blue and white, like defocused clouds. Click. Next flower, blue card, green card, white, black, mottled. Next flower. Same thing. They worked quickly, efficiently and no discussion. I assumed that they were selling stock photos.

I may be on the extreme end of the spectrum, but to me that is about the same as sky replacement in landscapes - completely off limits as far as I am concerned. Otherwise I might as well take a stock flower picture on a green background and put behind it a stock background. No need for no stinking cameras.

Jul 29, 2024 at 10:44 PM

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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · flower photography backgrounds

I've taken literally thousands of flower photographs, both in natural settings, and at florists and garden shops. If you'll open up your lens a couple of stops, you might be able to coax enough depth of field out of the shot.

Here's one I did a couple of years back, and only had the rest of a flat of flowers as the background -

Jul 30, 2024 at 06:36 PM

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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · flower photography backgrounds

yep, just thinking and experimenting one can control the background to a level of satisfaction.

NIKON Z 9 NIKKOR Z 24-120mm f/4 S lens 92mm 1/125s 72 ISO

Jul 31, 2024 at 04:43 AM


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