Comments on: How to Photograph Flowers

By: Atul patel

Atul patel — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:40:31 +0000

very beautiful flowers flowers, HD Desktop Wallpapers

By: crista clania

crista clania — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:28:49 +0000

There are no words left, I’am truly speechless towards there beauty .

By: Sourav Chakraborty

Sourav Chakraborty — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:10:23 +0000

Great tips! I just love macro photography!

By: Ronnie

Ronnie — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:31:05 +0000

I will tell you all a little secret. Several years ago i suffered a bout of depression. Refusing to take pills i upgraded my DSLR and started taking photographs of flowers. Over a short period i was doing some fantastic stuff with my macro and as the photos got better and better so did my return to normal life. In short i owe a hell of a lot to nature and even though this was a very dark period in my life, i can today look at my phtographs and get a lot of satisfaction from them.

By: John

John — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:23:13 +0000

Great article! I two enjoy photographing flowers. Similar to what was mentioned above, I carry a few pieces of foam board with me. I use these to isolate the flower when needed, and make sure that I have one that is white to use as a fill light reflector. I paint the foam board different colors, you can also buy them that way, to complement or provide contrast to the subject. For me they hold up better than cardboard or construction paper, and you can cut them to whatever size suits your purpose. Very inexpensive too.

By: Terry Hretsina

Terry Hretsina — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:01:35 +0000

Hi Darren, Thanks for the ’8′ Questions on flower photos. I have been shooting flowers for many years. With Digital, you can now shoot shoot and shoot. Me,
7 of the 8 questions , I tend to do all the stuff , even with one flower. Or many.
It all depends on what you plan to shoot that day. Flowers are like people. You
nevr know what to expect…even when a gust of wind comes by. And even that
you can get an action shot, especially with Fox tails!!(the grass) Even with sunlight , you can walk around and do a ‘quick’ study and do all you can in a few min unless a bee or other incest shows up. When that happens you shoot cause insects give you a short time. I look thru the lens and do a close up walk around etc and shoot with all the knowledge you can.Angles , light, close ,not so close.
etc. I will look at the images right awayand look later. Then maybe a year after , there are some images you see that you never saw what you did first.. I tend to shoot more wide in Tiff or raw and then crop the way i want to later and do my own angles on the computer. I have ‘Mac’. I can take one image and make over 200 different ones from the same image. Maybe up to a 1000. There are so many variations when shooting flowers I just go out and capture their personality like one would do with people. However, Beginners will need guidance and once they discover how to shoot their fav. images of flowers , their creativity will take
over. AND people out there All have their opinions on your shots. You can have
10 different shots of the same set of flowers and have 50 opinions from 50 public people. Us photographers tend to choose pics of a flower we see the way way we would shoot them. Our own fav. pics of a certain flower doesn’t mean
everyone will like it and buy it. Of course, that is not news to you. You can have
award winning portraits and the person can still like your other mediocre pics
better than your award winning one. I guess to solve that is to take one picture
and ‘no one’ has a choice. And what photographer ‘takes one picture’?? Ya right.
Any way , keep up the good work,…there is always room for creativity. That will never stop. Terry Hretsina

By: Pokkisam

Pokkisam — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 07:22:14 +0000

I like and followed this article before preparing this flower pictures collection http://www.blog.pokkisam.com/content/beautiful-pictures-of-flowers

By: Robert Dingwall

Robert Dingwall — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 05:55:24 +0000

geoff – read the last section of the article – it goes into lenses for point-n-shoot and DSLR cameras.

Personally I have a 105mm with macro function.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:52:39 +0000

which is the best lens for taking close up photograph’s of flowers and insect’s
I would be greatful for the imformation.
I have an Olympus E-510 camera.

Thank you. Mr G.Pullin

By: Emaad

Emaad — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:10:23 +0000

hi,

lovely images.

but i disagree that with point n shoot you cant shoot it. I have used a superzoom olympus c2100 and c730 for lovely bokeh, handheld macro shots. you can see it flickr.com/emaad . But i used a technique. i used full 10x zoom plus two closeup filters. It becomes a powerful macro machine )