Photographic Research/Sue Bishop

 

Sue Bishop's photographs are predominantly of flowers, her images are more than a record of the subject, they are very painterly and she often goes into impressionism and even abstract, they are saturated with colour and light and are usually high key.

She has done work for the Royal Horticultural Society and sells all over the world and in 2004 was commissioned to produce work for Marks & Spencer to illustrate a new range of beauty products.

Together with a number of other photographers, Charlie Waite for example, she founded Light & Land in 1994 and runs photographic tours to destinations all over the world.

I have shown above a few examples of her work and would like to try to emulate the macro shots of flowers taken from different angles.

I have taken a few flower photographs in the field and have found it difficult to get the angles I needed together with the correct lighting.  I tried a fill in flash but this was too strong and took out all the interesting shadow and fall off in the background.  I also found it difficult to get the multiplicity of blooms in the frame together with the colour saturation, perhaps this is achieved in photoshop.

The images I have taken are successful but do not have the high key look that I was aiming for.