How to Preserve Flowers

How to preserve flowers: take a picture!
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To avoid having to iron a wrinkled black backdrop, fiddled with lighting instead. Used 1/4 power flashgun in gridded snoot above right, flashgun on lowest power on table in front, and continuous fluorescent on 1/5 power above and behind left. Pink top flowers were overexposed and blown out by snoot flash, removed about five stops in post to recover some of the details.