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.
February 15, 2013
Winner of the Garden Writer’s Association 2015 Gold Award as the Best Overall Book published in 2014 ! ********************* Hunting for photos is one of [...]
February 15, 2013
Let’s begin the Workshop. Garden photography lessons with Saxon Holt, a professional garden photographer for 30 years. Saxon has published more than 20 “traditional” books [...]
February 14, 2013
What’s the point of a photograph ? I ask this question every time I click the shutter. Why am I taking this picture in this [...]
January 20, 2013
Stop the presses ! We interrupt the regularly scheduled garden photography lessons to bring you some breaking news. While writing a lesson in The PhotoBotanic Garden [...]
November 14, 2012
Today is the first day I have walked in my garden or picked up a camera since I fell from the ladder. Details for the [...]
June 6, 2012
Native plant gardens are often hard to photograph. Many native gardeners care more about the plants and habitat than the aesthetics. This is perfectly OK [...]
May 8, 2012
“Why is a tripod so important when stabilization is built into many cameras and lenses ?” asked a student at a recent workshop. I always [...]
May 7, 2012
One of the biggest lessons for students who take my garden photography workshops is about “seeing”. If you don’t stop to think what you are really [...]
April 2, 2012
Alert ! I have truly made the big time. Amy Stewart, at Garden Rant called me out, first admiring my Grasses book as garden porn and then pokes me: “Hey [...]
December 11, 2011
A major theme for good garden photo composition is – Fill the Frame. The great Magnum photographer Robert Capa said “if you photos are not [...]
