Oliver Oettli

Flower Powder

December 9th, 2014

For a long time, I wanted to create pictures with powder, flour, thrown at models to create this unique look.

There are no words to describe how hard it is, to create the right kind of "cloud" and what a mess this all means.

I am a photographer for People. Corporate. Editorials.
I care about the visual concept and this is why I used to shoot own projects that do have a Fashion Flair.
And I still do it, if I have clients asking for it.

I hope you enjoy it and look forward to your feedback.

Oliver Oettli
web: www.oliveroettli.ch
social: https://www.facebook.com/oliveroettliphotography

Conceptual

flour

Powder

model

35 Comments

Noel Edling December 10, 2014 - 4:56 am

In awe, this is amazingly well executed. 5/5!

dan-shortt December 10, 2014 - 5:29 pm

I've tried this on a much smaller scale and still failed. Nailing that perfect moment is SO hard.

Oliver Oettli December 11, 2014 - 4:59 am

Took us two days and around 500 Shots to get a decent 10 solid frames. And an insane mess.

Jason Ranalli December 19, 2014 - 7:54 pm

Oliver Oettli

Wow....well I think you definitely earned your Picture of the Day then!!

Excellent work!

Jan Christian Zimara December 11, 2014 - 9:44 am

Still awesome :)!

Anonymous December 12, 2014 - 7:16 am

This is not an easy feat. Congratulations on the result.

Lori Whalen December 12, 2014 - 9:51 pm

love this.

rahul pande December 13, 2014 - 7:36 am

nice photo

Charlie Magrin December 15, 2014 - 4:26 pm

absolutely stunning! congrats! i tried to freeze some "floury parkour action" with flashes and the result is way different and of course not as mastered as yours, did you have 2 lights or more? constant or flashes? how did you threw the flour? thx in advance! :)

Oliver Oettli December 16, 2014 - 6:27 am

Charlie Magrin

Its was basically one flash. And one shot a time. So one jump / one throw of the powder for one frame. I found out that trying multiple strobes a move will only end in even more data trash. I focussed one one picture a time to capture the perfect moment.
The flour was thrown by my assistant .. with hours and hours of finding out the best technique.

Charlie Magrin December 16, 2014 - 7:58 am

Thx for the explanation Oliver! Hard work always pays back!

Caroline Carrigan December 18, 2014 - 11:59 am

Striking combination of elements, lovely.

Scott S December 19, 2014 - 6:51 pm

Great work. Love the movement in this.

Charlie Magrin December 20, 2014 - 5:41 am

this photo deserves it Oliver! remember that i told you that i've shot a flour session to? it's actually been selected by Rebecca for december 24th photo of the day!

Nicole Wells December 20, 2014 - 3:44 pm

This is awesomely done. So many ways it could go wrong, yet you didn't. Well done.

Anonymous December 21, 2014 - 5:53 pm

beautiful simply beautiful

Josephus Vigilanticus December 22, 2014 - 1:00 pm

Dang bro.

Matt Chansky December 22, 2014 - 8:33 pm

Simply gorgeous

ashley dellinger December 29, 2014 - 11:39 pm

If your ever up to it would be super cool to see the before & after for others trying to create this....to see how much was in camera & how much had to be composited

Daniel Whisler December 30, 2014 - 2:17 pm

Very well done, I can imagine the mess and reset time. Well worth the effort!

Tamara Würzburger January 9, 2015 - 4:59 pm

great shot !

Erick Rodriguez January 23, 2015 - 3:56 pm

Absolutely GORGEOUS

Elke Valkenborgh January 29, 2015 - 8:54 am

waw :O amazing

Shyama Prasad Mishra August 15, 2015 - 9:31 am

Extremely well executed shot!

Sam Foto August 24, 2015 - 1:05 am

Amazing effort and the results speak for themselves!

Matija Marcius August 29, 2015 - 2:07 pm

Bravo, this is amazing!

Matt Kuhn October 20, 2015 - 4:03 pm

Hey Oliver, I've been challenged to try a shoot like this and I was hoping to get your opinion of baby powder vs flour. Understanding how difficult it is to get the powder fly the way want, any tips on flinging the powder?