'Flowers and my fave things' was the theme for this

sunny days photoshoot. I had two different style of

flowers for this shoot, some bright pink artificial ones

as well as some natural pod looking branches.

I selected items that i thought would compliment these

flowers in a relaxed but exciting way.

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I found a salt lamp, sunglasses, a flared sleeved top, a

Buddha statue and some art work and paper. I positioned

myself right next to the huge windows in order for as

much natural light to flood in as possible.

I tried using hard and soft backgrounds, first a dark

wooden board and then some fabric that had been

painted.

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As the shoot went on the sun started getting lower in the

sky meaning these beautiful shadows were being created.

I tried holding the plants up so only their shadow was

seen instead of having the positioned in the actual frame.

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I played around with composition quite a bit in this shoot,

as my objects where all quite different shapes I needed to

try lots of different options to see what worked best. In the

images bellow (bottom middle) you can see i positioned

the plant the its leaves were taking up half of the shot and

I really loved the outcome.

 

In the bathroom I found this strip LED lighting on a steel beam which I thought would be super cool to drape some props over. I tried putting lots of props in with the LED light but I worked out less items looked better in this shot.

 

This shoot was so much fun and I ended up loving and using majority of the photos I took that day. I think natural lighting for flat lays works the best and I recommend using shadows in your favour rather than trying to get rid of them as I loved how these turned out!

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