Phone photos that sell:
the window-light method

The setup

One north-facing window (consistent light all day in the southern hemisphere), a stool, a plain wall or a sheet of card, and your phone on a cheap tripod or a stack of books. Shoot with the window to your left or right, never behind you and never behind the flowers.

The mistakes that make photos look amateur

Overhead kitchen lights cast yellow pools. Cluttered backgrounds make a AU$95 bouquet look like AU$30. Shooting from standing height looks down on the arrangement, which flattens it. Get the phone to flower height. If you remember one thing, it is that.

A ten-minute routine

Condition the stems, build the piece, wipe the vase, clear the bench. Shoot three angles: front, three-quarter, and the detail shot of the focal flower. Then stop. Twenty near-identical frames is procrastination dressed as craft.

Editing without lying

Lift shadows, pull highlights down, nudge white balance toward neutral. The goal is that the photo matches what the client will unwrap. Heavy filters sell the first bouquet and refund the second.

Every piece in our students' portfolios is shot in the cyclorama corner, but the method is the same one, just with a nicer wall. The course covers it in week eight, and the about page shows the corner itself.