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As I have resigned from Flowergram and do not particularly want to join another relay company (I am doing quite well with telephoning florists myself), does anyone know how I could get another design book thaat isn't logoed up or advertising the relay companies?

I dophotograph some of my work but sadly my skills are in floristry and not photography.

Any suggestions?

oooo your nr me rowan

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Take photos of your own work, and build your own personal portfolio, im sure its better than the ones in the relay books

Build your own Rowan. It's not that difficult these days. You've got a digi camera of course. A decent printer and some glossy photo paper. You just need to get the background right and of course you can do some nice editing to make them look a bit classier.

Obviously it doesn't help when you're sending flower orders out unless you're going to send an image to the other florist, who might say 'er...we don't do it like that' but it does give you something of your own to show customers.
You can just keep adding to it as you go along.

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I have four presentation folders (nice ones) and they are split into wedding bouquets, weddings event work, funerals, gift bouquets and modern designs. I actually just print pics off as a normal pic at the asda and then stick them on black card. The black gives them a really nice background and can make a photograph that isnt professional, look more striking.

I then put prices on all funeral stuff at the side of each pic with the sizes they come in and the prices accordingly. I then give the cust the book to look at for five minutes in peace before i go over and assist.

Hope this helps!! and like the others say you can just keep adding to it. Take a pic of everything you do, some on here use tents but i put my stuff against a dark background when possible.

hmmm...

I have been thinking about getting a digital camera - really need to upgrade the designs on my websites and of course would use the photo's for our own design guide. What is a reasonable quality camera for this sort of work? Megapixel wise I mean. And what sort of software do you all use? Is the bog standard that comes with camera enough or is something like Photoshop recomended? My budget runs to about, oh, lets say $1

Seriously tho, can't spend too much but I don't want the photo's to look rubbish, no point spending time on it if it's not going to look good.

Thanking you all in advance!
Todd.

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What about 8 mp? my camera is 8 megapixels but then again i dont take photos of flowers

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Yeha, thats the prob Zoe. I think taking GOOD photo's of flowers, so that it does them justice is tricky. It's hard to get all the fine points into focus, and I often think photo's of flowers look flat. I think 8mp is standard for a decent camera, but is this good enough for commercial purposes? As in quality reproduction on paper and on websites.

With the US dollar coming down (almost equal to the Aussie dollar hehhe) we are expecting the price of electronics to come down soon - might hold out till then but doing the research now so any advice would be appreciated.

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hi toddx, mines a 8.1 mega pixel sony cybershot, it,s good takes close up stuff fine.
have a look at my pics in my albums
flower

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Ours is 8 as well and we take a lot of close-up pics (cos I like them ) Take a look at these on my website, I think the close ups look good: Expressive Designs - South Wales Florist

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