| The idea behind this contest is to stage a shot of a flower complete with a backdrop, artificial lighting, and a reflector (if needed). For those without professional equipment, a piece of material or cardstock could be used for a backdrop, a couple of lamps could be used to create the desired light, and any shiny surface could be used as a reflector. You could also use a mirror or other things to help stage your flower. You can use software to enhance color and do minor editing, but you shouldn't use it to extract the flower from a 'natural' background. There are a lot of great examples of this type of shot on TLF, so you might want to browse the flowers category for inspiration. |
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Broken Dream
| | Please help me in congratulating Donwrob for winning the "Staged Flower" contest using the image, "Broken Dream", which received 17 vote(s). If you did not win, please consider submitting an image to the next contest. Thank you all for participating.
Remember, in case of a tie, the image with the highest score wins. |
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This Bud's For You
 | Got clipped by accident. Put in Bud holder shot with Black BR and available light.
Total votes: 8 |
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From My Wife's Garden
 | Taken as part of a photo class focusing on experiments with flashlights
Total votes: 3 |
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Phalenopsis Rebloom
 | Phalenopsis in a second bloom.
Total votes: 4 |
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A ROSE
 | now here is a question i know what this is as my wife got it for our anniversary (30/07/07) so i would like for you you all to guess what it is ..
i am thinking of doing a canvas for this one
love mike
Total votes: 3 |
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Broken Dream
| Here is my staged flower entry. I used a 1200 year old Native American pot and wild flowers from the field by my house. The pot is on a beaver pelt. I used a combination of candle light and I LED flash light painted during the expousure. I used a black backdrop in a dark room. Thanks for looking. Don
Total votes: 17 |
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Cactus Flower
 | I'd been looking unsuccessfully for a decent flower to shoot for the contest in the middle of a drought, when I noticed our cactus doing its semi-annual thing. Knowing the flower would be limp in a few hours, I quickly draped it with a black cloth, shot in macro mode with electronic flash, using a couple pieces of foam packaging material as a diffuser and a reflector. Cropped and tweaked a little in Corel Paint Shop Pro.
Total votes: 5 |
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sunflower
 | Macro shot of a bouquet of sunflowers that my husband gave to me :)
Total votes: 0 |
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Carnation
 | Here is another flower, a carnation, given for valentines day.
Total votes: 2 |
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Lily mirror image
 | My Black Lily reflected in a mirror with lamp light bounced off aluminium plates with a sheet as background.
Total votes: 4 |
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Staged flower 1
 | This photo of silk orchids, I used a lamp and gold reflector. Over the lamp I used a loosley woven flax mat to difuse the lighting.
Total votes: 7 |
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Lucky Sunflower
 | Under our bird feeder there is always a few lucky seeds that don't get eaten by the birds, and this is one of them. I hung a red sheet behind it for the background then waited for the evening sun to shine on it.
Total votes: 7 |
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Poppy Power ..
 | Flower Power was the theme for a photo competition run by the local Flower Show so I entered this image of a poppy head that I found in a nearby park. They must have liked it as it got first prize.
Total votes: 1 |
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Sunflowers
 | A Colbalt Blue vase of Sunflowers, given to me by my husband.
I've been looking for Sunflowers to photo and haven't come across any. Usually I have some come up from putting out Sunflower seed for the birds but this year none have appeared.
I used cream colored muslin laid over a piece of foamcore. For light I used a clamp on light, ceiling light and the camera flash, nothing elaborate.
Total votes: 7 |
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Staged, copy of an early Dutch artist's painting
 | Pink Geraniums and other items arranged to imitate a work of art by an early Dutch artist, Jan David de Heem.
Used a beige tablecloth as a backdrop, a lamp set on the table to illuminate the area where the arrangement was, plus the built in flash on the camera. Hand held. The butterflies were added by hanging a mobile behind the arrangement. Had fun arranging this.
Total votes: 0 |
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