First Steps In Photography – Photographing Flowers

Here is a tip to improve your flower photography: Don’t photograph too many flowers all bunched together because the result will look messy.

The problem though is that even if you only have three or four flowers in the frame, you may find they crowd into one another and look messy.

When you learn this from experience you may give up trying to photograph flowers growing in the ground and try shooting cut flowers because you can arrange the flowers as you want.

However, if you have try to photograph cut flowers, you may find that the flowers flop all over the place.

You may find that one flower overlaps another and try as you might they insist on falling back together.

Sometimes that is OK but if it is a problem for you as it is for me, then try this solution.

Cut the stems short so that the flowers stand up pertly, waiting for their photographer.

Get In Close
Another technique is to get in close, like I have done in this gallery. The guiding principle is to picture flowers as sensuous curves.

Don’t forget they are flowers, so you want to include enough so that the viewer can still tell they are flowers, but beyond that you can simply think of the flowers as graphic shapes – sensuous graphic shapes.

Here is a link to my flower photo gallery. Take a look at the Iris Close-Up shot to see what I mean.

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