Over the years I have developed an eye for black and white photography, however, being half of Artisticblend is really making me explore different aspects of photography.

While at the local South of the James Farmers Market, we passed by these sunflowers. Their color really caught my eye. I felt this was a perfect opportunity to try out some color play. So we bought the sunflowers and took them home. I created a little studio set up with my new lights and fabricated backdrop. I was hoping to get a clean white background with bold crisp color of the flowers popping out at the viewer. I got the bold crisp flowers, but the background was a little less then clean white.

Sun Flowers

So,I found out I have a lot to learn. I played around with the images in color for an hour, but no matter what I did to it  I could not get it to look like the image in my head. The entire series was shot…no pun intended :)

Bound and determined to not let the shoot be a complete disaster, I reverted back to my old ways. Ahhh…black and white…my comfort zone.  I took my favorite picture out of the series and started playing with it. In minutes I was able to get an image I’m happy with.

Even though this shoot did not turn out as desired I refuse to give up. I already have ideas of what to do next…just need more flowers!