I was at the grocery yesterday, and even though it is the middle of winter and really cold… they had some beautiful tulips already. It is as if spring was telling me it is almost here! Last year spring came in February and the botanical gardens opened weeks early since the flowers were blooming… this year I don’t think we’ll get that lucky. Looks like the cold is here for a bit!

For this set up I have one of my printed photo boards as the background and the base. The board on the bottom I got from the Photo Boards company (60cm size) and the one I have propped up as a back wall is one of my textures from the Wax Storms texture collection printed on luster paper and mounted to gatorboard from my local printer. (24″ X 30″ size)

I have the light coming in from the window softly from the left side and all off the lights in the room off so I only have the natural light on my setup.

For these photos I was using my Lensbaby Velvet 85 lens – I absolutely love that lens. I use it set on about f5.8 – so it doesn’t have that glowy feel the lower f-stop creates but still looks very velvety in the finished photos.  Canon EOS 5D Mark III | ISO6400 |1/320s | f5.6

*The finished photo was processed with the Carousel Preset collection (preset 4) and has a texture added from the WaxStorms set (texture 17 added twice on softlight). This is one of my personal favorite sets for adding some really pretty, soft texture to my photos.

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This is a pullback of my set up – I kept it simple for this shoot.

Photo straight out of the camera. I love the details you can see in the petals and then how the photo fades into a soft blur with a velvet feel from the lens.

Processed using the Carousel Lightroom Preset collection – preset 4

Finished photo using the Wax Storms texture set. Texture 17 – used twice – on softlight. Softly masking some texture of the 2 main flowers.