My Garden Flowers on a Lightbox.

[travis4567]

Bombarded my subject with light from everywhere for no shadows and shot in HDR mode.

[Mike Buckley]

Probably my favorite of all your images made in this style. The composition is a fascinating blend of organized chaos and minimalism. I don't know if it's an accident, but every blossom is connected to something else in at least two points and I think that's the element that perhaps makes order out of the chaos. Absolutely love it!

[ajsmith]

Love It!

[Shadowman]

Dazzling. Nicely done.

[Brownbear]

Absolutely gorgeous! I love this image! (wall hanger)

[Kodiak]

I do not feel comfortable with the composition!
Maybe because most of the flowers are facing down the frame?
…but it's just me.

I feel great with the light, though!

[chauncey]

Travis, you stole my thunder.
Been rereading one of my Harold Davis's books...that technique is going to be next on my agenda.

Not nuts about the arrangement but like the concept a lot.

[DanK]

Well done, and very timely, since we just had a thread on the difficulty of doing flowers with white backgrounds. If you are willing to post some details about how you do this, I'm sure a number of us would find it very helpful.

Re the composition: I agree that it would be better with the flowers not pointing down.

Not sure what you mean by "HDR mode." Do you mean that you shot an in-camera HDR jpeg? And if so, why? Did the scene exceed the dynamic range of the sensor?

[Wavelength]

Excellent idea; yet i am not sure about the way in which the flowers are arranged; it would have been better if they appeared like a bunch of flowers thrown to the floor by some body than a deliberate two way placement

[bnnrcn]

This image is a beauty !

[travis4567]

Probably my favorite of all your images made in this style. The composition is a fascinating blend of organized chaos and minimalism. I don't know if it's an accident, but every blossom is connected to something else in at least two points and I think that's the element that perhaps makes order out of the chaos. Absolutely love it!

Thanks for all the comments. Mike, I did originally have the flowers separated but it looked too disjointed and chaotic. I did intentionally arrange the flowers to come in contact with at least one flower or stem.
As for the setup..I placed a large negative lightbox on my studio floor with my tripod boom set directly overhead. Using this technique previously I have only used the ambient room light but I found I had to greatly increase the exposure in Lightroom. For this series I used two diffused lights from the back and one almost directly overhead to increase the lighting on the flowers from the top. Shot in AV mode @ f5.6 Canon SL1, Sigma 35mm ART lens (which by the way hasn't come off my camera in three months).
I always shoot a few HDR shots when I shoot just for the heck of it. This one worked. I have some from this series that were not shot in HDR that are pretty good also.

Here's another non HDR.

[bnnrcn]

IMO non HDR looks more natural and nicer Travis

[Brownbear]

Hi Travis,

I loved the first image, but I love the 2nd image a little more. Gorgeous!

[terrib]

It certainly made me stop and study it...