I wanted to try taking photos of white flowers against a white background and see what I could come up with. I picked up these white gerbera daisies on my way home from work and set them up outside.
I used a white foam board in the background. The sky was overcast so the light was pretty even. I added some effects in NIK Color Efex on the closeup photo and the other two the effects were done in Photoshop.
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Through My Lens 
How beautiful and pure. 🙂
Thank you so much.
I love Gerbera daisies and I love what you have done here. Great idea with the white on white.
Thank you, Inga. They had some beautiful colored Gerbera daisies too. I may have to pick some of them up sometime and work with them.
Lovely photos, love the close ups can see right into the heart of the flower, thank you learning all the time.
Thank you.
Nice work … very pure – difficult with white against white .. because it’s for one of the whites to look grey or too yellow. Done a great job here .. and No 1 is my favorite pick, because I can see every little petal in the flower.
Thanks, Viveka. I hope you’re feeling a bit better today.
I love hearing your techniques. I need to check out NIK. I’m not familiar with it. Do you have a special lens for the close-ups you do, or is that just the effect from cropping in close?
I don’t have a macro lens. I use an 18-200 zoom lens, get as close as I can and still focus. Sometimes I have to crop to get close enough. I didn’t have to crop any of these. If you want to look into NIK – they have a 15 day free trial on all their plugins. Their website is niksoftware.com.
Thanks.
The photos are as someone else said, pure. I will add innocence, beautiful, romantic and wedding worthy. Thank you for sharing.
How serene. And SO beautiful! i am maybe just slightly biased, as Gerberas are my absolute favourite flowers! 🙂
Very soft and beautiful.
BE ENCOURAGED! BE BLESSED!
Very beautiful. I also liked your tulips a lot.
Very nice. I really like the POV on the second one.
Thanks, Carissa.
I love the two bottom shots – a nice variation!
Thank you, Monica.
I use the same lens… love it and foam board! And daisies, my birth flower are my favorite. Great photos as always 🙂
I’ve always liked daisies. They were my class flower when I graduated from high school ages, and ages ago. We used to put them in colored water and the daisies would turn that color. Maybe I’ll have to try that again. 🙂