SOME CREATIVE MACRO FLORAL WORK
To shoot with macro lenses, can change anything you point the camera into a whole different world.
Whilst visiting Cape Town during one of my stints, I had the pleasure of doing some shoots with the FUJI GFX 100 medium format camera, and how amazing to hold such an incredible beast of a camera in your hands. Pro photographer Malcolm Dare helped me with setup, and gave me one of his macro lenses to use for some left over blooms I didn’t quite have the heart to throw away after a styled shoot in Stellenbosch.
The images have details and quality you wouldn’t believe, and even though they aren’t’ shots that I have much use for, I am just in love with the close up view of colour, texture and delicacy.
Fuji has a range of incredible cameras, so many of them I had been able to shoot with over the years of using their system, and this camera brings a whole new front to their range.
It was a chance to get creative, to be in my own world with the beauty of my dying blooms in a box for a moment, and to be able to perhaps imagine myself as small as an insect for a second.
I have always loved the idea of more, plenty, big – and to fill a whole frame with the textures of these blooms and leaves, I loved to do.
I felt this childlike joy to style them in front of the lens which was able to focus only 30cm away, and I sometimes look at them purely because of its beauty. No other reason. We see flowers and blooms and leaves many times on display, like wedding arrangements or in bouquets, to buy at stores to add to vases, and this way, I saw them wilting, not as fresh as they were, and I loved that vulnerable state they gave me in rawness.
Yolandi Jacobsz
Specialized Photographer, Loci Photography