In the Studio: Pink Gerbera Daisies

As some of you already know, I haven’t been able to go out much photographing lately due to a knee injury. So Bill and I have been setting up our studio lights and I’ve been photographing some flowers under the lights. It’s a totally different way of photographing flowers for me – but I’m having fun, learning a lot – and getting to photograph some flowers.

I thought I’d do a series of blog posts talking about what I’m learning – and sharing some of the photos from the studio.

The first setup for the flowers with the studio lights was just using one light and photographing a light pink gerbera daisy in my family room. I discovered I loved being able to capture the details of the center of the daisy – but really don’t like having the coffee table as the background . . .

So the next day we moved our light setup into the dining room – which has a much higher table (it’s much easier to photograph flowers when you can stand up rather than keep having to bend over . . . ) The other big change was to add a roll of white paper behind the flowers as a backdrop which totally changed the look of the photos – and helped me see the possibilities for photographing flowers in the studio.

As you can see – I had lots of fun with several bright pink gerbera daisies

I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing some of my first attempts at photographing flowers in the studio. I’ll be doing more posts about photographing in the studio in the coming weeks.

In the Studio: Pink Gerbera Daisies

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