Cherry Blossoms

[Yebisu]

I made a "mini studio" a few days ago and spent a couple hours today photographing cherry blossoms. I found it difficult photographing light colour flowers on a light background.

Edit: pre Ai 55/3.5 on a D3000

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This is the studio. I know it looks like a 5 year-old made it but it seems to work

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[fuzzywuzzy]

This kind of thing looks so easy but the devil is in the details

Your background is picking up a pink cast from the flowers, is there any way to get the flowers further away from that background?

Alternatively you could pick a different colored background. A very light grey would give you more contrast but remain neutral.

I'm no artist, but I'm told that colors on the opposite side of a color wheel complement each other, so you could try with a green background - http://www.colormatters.com/color-and-design/basic-color-theory

[Yebisu]

Thanks for the reply fuzzy.

I tried to remove the cast in photoshop but I couldn't do it without burning out the petals. Need to improve my photoshop skills! Like you said, different colour background card might be the answer. Or a different colour flower.

It was much easier to photograph a lens this way. It was a bit grey on one side so I had a quick play with "levels" now the background looks OK (to me anyway:D )


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[tobbsman]

just beatiful!
#3 does it for me ... all perfect.

Cheers
Tobias

[Gerris2]

They are lovely photos, also thank you for the photo of your nice backdrop.

[Orio]

Most highlights look clipped here, but perhaps it's my monitor.

[sichko]