Photographing Flowers....tips?

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I've sometimes take photographs as a free favour to a friend of mine who do wedding cakes and flowers.

The cakes I am getting better at, but the flowers are puzzling me. She often works from home (she does the cakes, her business partner is the florist).
This means that when I take the photos, I have to make use of backdrops etc around the home.

Anyway, some of the examples are in the flowers gallery at www.twos-company.co.uk

The more recent ones are the ones I've taken. Many have been taken by her on a compact.

So, any thoughts?

Oops, forgot to mention, these are flower arrangements, bouquets, table arrangements etc, rather than closeup / macros of flowers
 
take your own backdrop, a white or cream coloured (ironed) sheet would do it, also as they are whole bouquets it is hard to get too arty....good window light is usefull. I don't know too much about flash but have used bounce flash for some portraits and that gives a softer finish. Using your own backdrop would give a consistency to the shots too.
 
I agree Peter but I thought that the bouquest would look best against white or cream as that is the usual colour of wedding dresses..
 
a background would be very useful im sure, but what really gets me is the shadowless lighting. like marianne said bounced light is a good one. maybe by a window with a reflector opposite and some off camera fill in flash if you need to?
 
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