

Portrait shot wide open on a short telephoto, so the nearest blooms fall soft and the face stays sharp. Cut flowers on long visible stems stand at four or five different distances from the lens: white cosmos, butter-yellow freesia, one violet larkspur spike, green buds and leaf, entering from the top and both sides and arcing across the frame, clustering at the crown and filling the lower corners out of focus. The face of a strikingly beautiful woman with sharp editorial features, high fashion casting, sits sharp in a clear opening in the middle, skin dewy, small pressed petals applied to her cheekbones and brow. A soft airbrushed teal-to-lilac gradient backdrop with a diffuse bloom of light behind her head, one cool rim. Pale and moderate in chroma. Serene, cool and slightly remote, eyes half closed.