When faced with overwhelming choices in beautiful gardens, it is almost essential for garden photographers to give themselves a target, an assignment. These days, I am stalking geraniums. True, it is great to wander around a wonderful garden, drinking in beauty, grabbing shots, but too often such photos end up as snapshots without a story[...]
At one point or another all garden photographers will have to deal with lens flare. Too much strong directional light will cause the glass in the lens to disperse the light – flare, and affect the quality of the image. The flare will wash out color and reduce contrast. It is not always so[...]
To get a good garden photo, look for hardscape to help define your composition and tell the story, a story about the structure of the garden, how it is put together, what elements, besides the plants, make it work. In this lesson of the PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshop, we continue the assignment theme “Think Like[...]
You have heard of farm to table ? Here is garden to wall. I simply could not resist making a PhotoBotanic illustration of this Iris in my garden. My studio was all set up from yesterday’s rose shoot and I wanted to practice photo stacking on a more complicated flower than a rose. Off into[...]
Should you even try to take pictures when the light is horribly wrong ? This is the dilemma of any garden photographer when traveling or going into a garden that you may never get to see again. I’ve heard of some photographers deciding they can hire a Perth 4WD to travel beautiful areas all over[...]