Appleberry Photography - Flower Photograhy

Summer photography is in full swing in many places in the USA.  Notwithstanding the devastating floods in Louisiana and the droughts in some parts of our country.  For many photographers capturing the summer with water crafts, animals, picnics, vacations, and one of our favorite:  flower photography.   There is something, at least to us, about the beauty of flowers that creates fantastic photographs.

But how do you take close up photos of flowers that will do them justice?

Many cameras already have a preprogrammed icon with close up flowers.

Those are fine! Even wonderful.  They take the guess work out of shutter speed and aperature settings

Other times the photographer sets up the shot and photographs the flower (s) at the opportune moment.  And by that we mean no wind, no camera shake, no insects (unless you want one) on the flower.  You also need to examine the flowers before you set up  the shot to make sure there are no dead petals, leaves, or stems. 

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Ellen Stanton

Appleberry Photography

Carol Sue Jones

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Depth of Field for Photographing Flowers

Beautiful Flower Photography


More Tips On Changing Depth of Field:

• Choose a low numbered aperture (large iris opening) for results with a shallow focus or shallow depth of field. Primarily only the subject that your camera lens is focused on will be in focus.
• Choose a high numbered aperture (small iris opening) for results with deep focus or deep depth of field. Primarily the entire image area will be in focus.
• Using shorter lenses or smaller focal length (ex. wide angle) lenses creates more depth of field.
• Using longer lenses or longer focal length (ex. telephoto) lenses creates a shallow depth of field.

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• Aperture
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Happy Photographing!

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The video by Dom Bower  below shows us how to photograph a flower with a black background without using a flash! 

Photographing Black Background without a flash

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Appleberry Photography-How to Photograph Flowers!

With Memorial Day just around the corner, and flowers now being planted, it's a great time to learn how to take photographs of flowers!

Here is an excellent video by Graham Houghton on photographing flowers! 

How to Photograph Flowers!

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Fall flowers - butterflies, bees and hummingbirds-This is beautiful!

Macro Lens - Flower Photography

When you were a kid, the summer seemed endless!  But as an adult, and a photographer we know that the summer flies by.  And so it is with photographing flowers.  Many bloom in the Spring and fade as Summer approaches, some bloom in the summer for a while and their life span is over by Fall.
Here is an excellent video on taking flower photography

Beautiful Flower Pictures - 3 Tips for Taking Better Flower Photos

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How to take photographs of flowrers

Flower photography, as mentioned, is one of the most popular type of photography.

Capturing the perfect photo is not easy, often frustrating, but the results are rewarding!

Pick an overcast day if you can!  The sun's glare can flatten the petals of a flower in the photograph

Avoid windy days!  The flower will blur in the photograph!

Here is a photograph taken in front of my sister Cate's home.  This photograph was a multi focus shot where there were several subjects.  I waited about ten minutes for the wind to stop before taking the photo.

The day was overcast so there was no glare on the flowers! 

Happy Photographing!

Ellen

Flower Photography Sue Bishop

Basic Flower & Macro Photography