For my final project I really wanted to do something with flowers, because I enjoy photographing flowers and nature. However, I didn’t want to just go outside and take pictures of flowers in nature, I wanted to do something different than what I have done before. So, I decided to do do some flower photography in the studio with a model. I researched different types of in-studio flower photography, and when I found an image I really liked I decided I would attempt to make my final project images similar to that one.
Before any photoshop work, I worked with the lighting in the studio and my camera settings to make my photos evenly exposed and dramatically lit. I used a medium shutter speed, low ISO, and medium aperture for all of my images. Adjusting my settings to this allowed me to evenly expose my images by allowing the correct amount of light into the camera, while also using a tripod to avoid any movement blur because I wanted my images to be extremely sharp. With a low ISO, I was able to have little to no noise in my work. To light my pictures, I used one light with a softbox to the right of my model’s hands, making sure to keep the light at the same power and not move my model so I could get each image as similar to all the others as possible.
After doing this with each image, I opened them into Photoshop and used the clone stamp tool to make all of the background a pure, even black. This was a very tedious process because it was difficult to make the whole background even and not streaky, but I turned my computer screen’s brightness up all the way and was able to see places in each image I hadn’t gone over, or anywhere that didn’t appear to be evenly edited. Once I did this the editing began to take less time, and I finished my body of work.
For some reason, my work looks really really streaky in these photo's but they didn't look streaky while I was editing them, and they aren't streaky on my prints.
Artist I referenced- https://www.haroldfeinstein.com/portfolio/flowers/
