Most of us see in three dimensions but the camera sees in two. In this chapter, as we learn how to Think Like a Camera, we will need to understand how the camera flattens shapes and how to use those spaces we see in three dimensions to become building blocks of our compositions in two[...]
Seeing as how most of the Northern Hemisphere is now experiencing autumn at one level or another, I figured it would make this next lesson on garden photography a bit more relevant if I actually show some fall photos. (Yes, California has fall color too…) The focal point of a picture is its subject, the[...]
No, it is not tulip time, at least not here in the Northern Hemisphere. It is time for more garden photography tips and lessons from the e-book I am writing, and teasing you with excerpts right here on Gardening Gone Wild. Time to begin Chapter Two. Chapter Two is “Seeing the Garden”, how to use[...]
Today is the first day I have picked up a camera or walked in my garden since I fell from the ladder. Details for the morbidly curious below. This is how I feel today.
We interrupt the regularly scheduled garden photography lesson to bring you some breaking news. While I was writing this lesson in The PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshop, controversy erupted. Provocation in the world of gardens and art ! National scandal in “hip, pretentious art” at the Berkeley Botanical Garden where an on-site art exhibit using recycled[...]