Flowers on Black Foam Core

[Tony Britton]

Here's a few flowers from my black foam core projects. Great tabletop project on rainy days! The flowers really pop!

 

[Asher Kelman]

Tony,

What a great and simple approach! This fits in very much with how you light to contain interest in birds with making dark backgrounds!

Your technique is especially good in helping define the complex and more unusual flowers.

Here being so meticulously explicitly and bold is magnetic in attracting our attention!

You have peaked my interest. I already use black backgrounds for most of my work with nudes and flowers!

I might, perhaps use this very simple setup With just a common flower, but adding a salamander, butterfly, preying mantis or hamster!

Asher

 

[Tony Britton]

Tony,

What a great and simple approach! This fits in very much with how you light to contain interest in birds with making dark backgrounds!

Your technique is especially good in helping define the complex and more unusual flowers.

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Here being so meticulously explicitly and bold is magnetic in attracting our attention!

You have peaked my interest. I already use black backgrounds for most of my work with nudes and flowers!

I might, perhaps use this very simple setup With just a common flower, but adding a salamander, butterfly, preying mantis or hamster!

Asher

Hi Asher,

Yes, this type of project is quite easy to setup. I practiced with flowers against the foam core, as they're easier to light, before attempting the more challenging seashell shots that I've posted here.

Tony

 

[Tony Britton]

A few more examples.

 

[Maggie Terlecki]

Here's a few flowers from my black foam core projects. Great tabletop project on rainy days! The flowers really pop!

They really do pop! Very beautiful, I especially like the peony! Maggie

 

[Tony Britton]

They really do pop! Very beautiful, I especially like the peony! Maggie

Thanks very much for commenting. It's a fun project, to be sure!

I hope everyone here follows the link to your work, which you include in your signature. Among the finest technically and artistically sublime photographs I've ever seen. We can all draw inspiration from your beautiful work.

Tony

 

[Wolfgang Plattner]

Hi

I'm doing this with available light from a window behind the flowers and the black foam or a black cardboard ...

Orange Power In A Bottle (nasturtium) by Wolfgang Plattner, on Flickr​

 

[Tony Britton]

Hi

I'm doing this with available light from a window behind the flowers and the black foam or a black cardboard ...

Orange Power In A Bottle (nasturtium) by Wolfgang Plattner, on Flickr​

Hi Wolfgang,

This really turned out fantastic. Excellent exposure and command of the light!

Tony

 

[Maggie Terlecki]

Thanks very much for commenting. It's a fun project, to be sure!

I hope everyone here follows the link to your work, which you include in your signature. Among the finest technically and artistically sublime photographs I've ever seen. We can all draw inspiration from your beautiful work.

Tony

Gosh, Tony, that is extremely kind to say, thank you! Maggie

 

[Maggie Terlecki]

Hi

I'm doing this with available light from a window behind the flowers and the black foam or a black cardboard ...

Orange Power In A Bottle (nasturtium) by Wolfgang Plattner, on Flickr​

Fabulous wolfgang. The green flowerbheads around really fill out the composition with the Nasturtium nicely. The Nasturium seeds are so good. Capers or like capers. Delicous!!

 

[Asher Kelman]

A lot of fun!

Asher Kelman: “Dry Harvest”​

Grabbed my dry grass, leaves and seed pods! But I need to get live flowers too!

Asher

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[Maggie Terlecki]

A lot of fun!

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Asher Kelman: “Dry Harvest”​

Grabbed my dry grass, leaves and seed pods! But I need to get live flowers too!

Asher

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Wonderful Asher, I like the little inclusion of wheat strands on the tabletop. The spots on one of the those leaves is intriguing; something from a bug? Whatever it is, doesn't matter, very nice composition! Maggie

 

[Asher Kelman]

Wonderful Asher, I like the little inclusion of wheat strands on the tabletop. The spots on one of the those leaves is intriguing; something from a bug? Whatever it is, doesn't matter, very nice composition! Maggie

Thanks. Maggie,

Those white patches: probably a virus infection of the leaves but I really don’t know. It’s very handsome though!

Asher

 

[Tony Britton]

A lot of fun!

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Asher Kelman: “Dry Harvest”​

Grabbed my dry grass, leaves and seed pods! But I need to get live flowers too!

Asher

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Hi Asher,

Your arrangement fills the frame quite nicely and your choice of color plays wonderfully against the black. Superb result!

Tony