by hankinslawrenceimages | Apr 6, 2015 | Asteraceae Family, Flowers, New Photos
Zodiac Gerbera Daisy © 2015 Patty Hankins
I’ve recently added a new photo – Zodiac Gerbera Daisy – to my BeautifulFlowerPictures.com website.
My Zodiac Gerbera Daisy photo is a companion photo to my Fusion Gerbera Daisy photo. Both are close-up studio photographs of wonderful brightly colored gerbera daisies. I’ll be adding more photos in the series of Gerbera Daisies in the weeks and months to come. Until then, I hope you enjoy seeing my photograph of this wonderful bright yellow flower.
Zodiac Gerbera Daisy is available as a matted print on my website.
by hankinslawrenceimages | Feb 23, 2015 | Asteraceae Family, Flowers, In the Studio, New Photos
Bright Pink Gerbera Daisy © 2014 Patty Hankins
I’ve recently added a new photo – Bright Pink Gerbera Daisy – to my BeautifulFlowerPictures.com website.
I’ve always loved Gerbera Daisies – but until I started photographing them in my studio I wasn’t particularly happy with the photos I was taking of them in local gardens. Gerberas aren’t native to the DC area – sometimes they do well outdoors – but often they fade quickly and don’t rebloom. So when I decided to start photographing flowers in my studio, gerberas were among the first flowers I wanted to photograph.
I found a group of amazing bright pink gerbera daisies at a local grocery store – and brought them into the studio – and got out my macro lens. Finally – I could take a close up photo of the center of a gerbera daisy! I was able to capture all the wonderful colors and textures in the center, the shadows on the petals and all the other incredible details!!! For some reason, the center of this daisy reminded me of a little girl’s birthday party – with all sorts of wonderful bright colors and pink streamers. Maybe that was just because I finally taking the photo of a gerbera daisy I’ve always wanted to take 🙂
I know many of you like gerbera daisies as much as I do, so I hope you enjoy all my new photos of gerbera daisies taken in my studio.
Bright Pink Gerbera Daisy is available as a matted print on my website.
by hankinslawrenceimages | Jan 28, 2015 | Asteraceae Family, Flowers
Now that the holidays are done – and the Christmas decorations are packed away at the local Botanical Gardens for another year – I’ve headed back into the studio to photograph more flowers.
I recently photographed some bright orange Fusion and bright yellow Zodiac Gerbera Daisies in the studio – thought you might enjoy seeing the photos of them.
Fusion Gerbera Daisy © 2015 Patty Hankins
Zodiac Gerbera Daisy © 2015 Patty Hankins
Fusion and Zodiac Gerbera Daisies © 2015 Patty Hankins
Fusion and Zodiac Gerbera Daisies © 2015 Patty Hankins
Fusion and Zodiac Gerbera Daisies © 2015 Patty Hankins
Fusion and Zodiac Gerbera Daisies © 2015 Patty Hankins
I’ve been photographing lots of other wonderful flowers in the studio so look for more studio flowers here on my blog in the coming weeks. Hope you enjoy seeing them 🙂
by hankinslawrenceimages | Dec 29, 2014 | Asteraceae Family, Flowers, In the Studio, New Photos
Trio of Pink Gerbera Daisies © 2014 Patty Hankins
I’ve recently added a new photo – Trio of Pink Gerbera Daisies – to my BeautifulFlowerPictures.com website.
Trio of Pink Gerbera Daisies is the first photo in a new series of studio photos I’m working on. As many of you know – for years – I only photographed flowers where they were growing – either in gardens or parks. And while that is still my favorite way to photograph flowers – I’ll admit that at time I couldn’t create the photos that I wanted to. Either because the flowers weren’t in great shape, or there were other plants in between what I wanted to photograph – or oftentimes just because I couldn’t find what I wanted to photograph. So recently, I’ve started doing some work photographing flowers in my studio – under controlled lighting conditions. What I’m finding is that when I have control over the lights and the how the flowers are arranged I can create photos that I’ve never been able to create before. So here’s the first of my new line of flowers in the studio – a Trio of Pink Gerbera Daisies.
This photograph is available as a matted print .. You can order Trio of Pink Gerbera Daisies from my website.
by hankinslawrenceimages | Sep 8, 2014 | Asteraceae Family, Flowers, In the Studio
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 . . .
Pink Gerbera Daisy © 2014 Patty Hankins
Pink Gerbera Daisy © 2014 Patty Hankins
Pink Gerbera Daisy © 2014 Patty Hankins
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
Pink Gerbera Daisy © 2014 Patty Hankins
Pink Gerbera Daisy © 2014 Patty Hankins
Pink Gerbera Daisy © 2014 Patty Hankins
Pink Gerbera Daisy © 2014 Patty Hankins
Pink Gerbera Daisy © 2014 Patty Hankins
Pink Gerbera Daisy © 2014 Patty Hankins
Pink Gerbera Daisy © 2014 Patty Hankins
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.
