Today, I’m going to start a series of posts about tips for improving your digital photography. With each tip, I’ll also point you to one of my favorite websites. It might be related or unrelated, but either way it will be interesting. So, let’s get started with tip #1.
Taking pictures of wildflowers is cliché for the most part. I don’t care, I still take tons of them. The biggest tip for making your wildflower images stand out is it to get down! Get down – really get down with the flowers.
A gopher’s eye view make the subject come alive. This is a prospective that the casual photographer often ignores. There are a couple of advantages the strategy provides.
First, it forces you closer to the subject. This is always a good thing.
Second, you will find your options for backgrounds increases exponentially! The typical, shot from eye level flower photograph, usually will have the ground as the background. Shooting from angle even with or even below the flower allows you to include sky, clouds, other out of focus flowers, and even possibly people in your flower compositions.
Third, when you are crawling around on the ground you just might see a unusual composition like this one. It is the backs of a patch of Arrowleaf Balsamroot.
Well that is it for tip #1. Tomorrow, I’ll let you in on an easy way to calculate the exposure for shooting pictures of the moon on a cloudless night. The first clue is that your camera will think it night time.
Oh, I almost forgot, here is a link to an exceptional forum of photographers brought together by Chris Marquardt who produces the great podcast “Tips from the Top Floor”.
