Camera and Computer
Both the digital camera and the computer are tools best learned with practice and experience. The more we know about our tools the easier they are to use and do our work. In this section we will cover classic camera functions as well as digital controls and settings. There are lessons on post production – the work done in the computer “post” or after shooting, as well as special effects and sharing.
March 12, 2013
Almost all gardens, all sizes, are designed with wending in mind. Don’t you just love that Old English word “wending” ? So casual, carefree, and [...]
March 12, 2013
Should you even try to take pictures when the light is horribly wrong ? This is the dilemma of any garden photographer when traveling or [...]
March 10, 2013
Come in to my garden this early California spring while I look for photos: Some days you just know the garden wants to be photographed but [...]
February 21, 2013
It was spring. I knew my Ribes sanguineum was crying out to be photographed. A siren song really. She beckoned and seduced me away [...]
February 21, 2013
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. [...]
February 20, 2013
This chapter in the PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshop covers a wide range of ideas to help you create your own style, to provoke and [...]
February 19, 2013
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 [...]
February 18, 2013
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
February 17, 2013
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 [...]
February 16, 2013
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 [...]
