How To Take A Feed-Worthy Pic Of Your Farm Fresh Blooms

Hey there,

We’re probably more the guideline than the rule here at Farmgirl, but when it comes to getting a little #FGFLove delivered to your doorstep? We always say: pics or it didn’t happen. And, after 14 years or not just making, boxing, and shipping farm fresh bouquets for online delivery to your door – but photographing ‘em too – we’ve got a pro top (or ten) on how to make sure said photo is first-rate feed material. Let’s talk brass tacks.

Go Au Naturale

Golden hour isn’t just for people, it makes flowers look that much more hand-make-me-into-a-flower-crown-and-wear-me-to-a-music-festival. Preferably one with couches. And a high restroom to attendee ratio. But we digress. Get out of your dining room/office/living room and out from under the cast of a bulb. In our experience, bouquets always look their best in the light they were grown in! Psst, that’s outside. Or next to your favorite sunny window.

Shake It Out

Whether it’s cross town or cross country, we ship your online flower bouquet wrapped up safely for transit. Which means, at least upon arrival, it needs to stretch its metaflorical legs before its ready for its close up! Make sure to choose a vase that’s just slightly bigger than the stems so they have the room they need to bloom without being so big that your flowers try to lean a little too far. And, most importantly, don’t be afraid to get your hands into your arrangement to add some air. Pull a stem up for some extra height, fluff up your greens, or move your favorite flower up so it's closer to the front!

Get The Lense Right

A rose is not a peony is not an anemone is not a ranunculus. Which is, to say, they’re apples and oranges (or maybe a kumquat) when it comes to finding the angle that’ll help your favorite focal flower shine in a photo. Our solution? Options, options, options.

What works for a rose, which has a lot less going on with its side than it does when you’re looking at it top down, won’t work, for example, with an anemone, which (conveniently) turns its head to face the camera. But what’s a budding photographer to do with a mixed bouquet that has a little bit of everything? Sometimes we like to turn on portrait mode and focus on one type at a time, letting all the other stems turn into some of the most photogenic, blurry background players we’ve ever seen. Other times we make like Annie Leibovitz and move our camera around, taking snaps as we go, ‘til we find an angle that knocks our socks off. This might mean we move closer, or further away, to get our camera lower to the ground or conversely bring it higher up for a more aerial POV.

Out last pro tip? You make our day when you not only take the photo, but share the photo with us, too! Tag us @farmgirlflowers or #farmgirlflowers on Instagram so we can see your stunning blooms in the spotlight.

xx,

Team Farmgirl