Want a tip on how to take good garden pictures ? Pick up your camera and go out into a garden. You can’t get good pictures if you don’t take any pictures. Put yourself in a position to make something happen. April 2 was a day to take photos in my own garden. It was [...]
Think Like a Gardener – Design and Shape. The PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshop – Lesson 3.1 [...]
If you want to be a garden photographer you need to think like a gardener. You are not just taking a picture of a landscape, you are photographing a garden. This may seem obvious, but it is important to keep it in mind as you look at a scene and try to tell your story. [...]
More than any other group of plants, I love to photograph grasses. They bring light, motion, and texture to gardens. They range widely in size and color, and mix well into all garden styles, from beds and borders to meadows and in containers. Because they are so versatile in blending into gardens they can be [...]
When you set out to photograph a garden, don’t miss the details and vignettes. Often the essence of what you see can be distilled down to distinct details, details that tell the story of what you feel. This is the last lesson in “Seeing the Garden”, chapter two of the PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshop. Throughout [...]