The first section and first e-book in the PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshop.
“Good” photos are not only well composed, they use color and light effectively, reveal beauty, and tell a story
"Do garden magazines and books—and the photography in them—mislead readers and create unrealistic expectations?" was the recent query from a garden industry friend. David [...]
"The best camera is the one you have with you" said the photographer Chase Jarvis as mobile phone photography began to be popular. And it's [...]
A good garden photograph is more than a pleasing composition. It should communicate something of the photographer’s appreciation of the garden—some insight or provocation. [...]
This chapter in the PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshop covers a wide range of ideas to help you create your own style, to provoke and [...]
A good garden photograph begins with...a good garden. So far, in these lessons on garden photography, we have explored the rudiments of composition and light [...]
Learning how to read the quality of light is the single most important skill in good garden photography. Even a good composition will fail if the light is bad. Photographers talk about “The Light” in reverential terms. It is the lifeblood of outdoor photography, no less than it is the lifeblood of plants for photosynthesis
In our last lesson, we learned to fill the frame of a composition with only those elements that contribute to the story—the most important lesson [...]
We begin Composition 101 with one basic rule: fill the frame. Remember this primary concept every time you take a picture. Each lesson in this [...]
The first book in the PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshop Winner of the Garden Writer's Association 2015 Gold Award as the Best Overall Book [...]