Garden photography tips as well as photoshop tips from the PhotoBotanic garden photography workshop course
In photography workshops the first tip is always: you have to be in the right place at the right time. Any camera will do. You [...]
As the sun approaches its lowest arc of the year I start to bend the rules of not taking pictures in bright light. Back light [...]
Some garden photography tips are timeless, some are a matter of knowing what to see, and others use the magic of the digital age.
A recent garden photography workshop at Denver Botanic Garden became a classic lesson on finding photos. By “finding photos” I ask students to use the [...]
Photographing Rose Bouquets is excerpted from the forthcoming PhotoBotanic Guide to Photographing Roses. Discounts on the preorder page. Rose bouquet with English roses 'L.D.Braithwaite' [...]
Long before I ever took a photograph of any plant or flower, I loved botanic illustrations. In college I worked in a framing shop that [...]
When an exciting photo presents itself we tend to only see what we want to see. This is especially true when looking intently at a [...]
Every garden story needs details and vignettes, especially plant portraits - but the portraits needn't be mug shots. The plants should be "of the garden" and give [...]
Dawn in the Zambrano garden, Albuquerque, New Mexico I try to treat every garden I visit with a sense of wonder, open to [...]
For those of you in real winter climates, please humor this Californian who went photo crazy in the garden the other morning when it got [...]