Help With Plant Photography
Photo A
Please help with my plant photography!
Which of these Hypericum – St Johns Wort photographs looks best and why.
Photo B
The West Yorkshire branch of the Alpine garden society had Peter Cordall as speaker on Saturday. The title of his talk was ‘Photography in the garden – garden landscapes to close-ups’.
Whilst I listened carefully I am painfully aware that I have breached many of his rules of thumb from the very start.
Photo C
I should have had a title and know what I was photographing before I started.
‘Hypericum’ is not a great title but ‘Hemispheres and Hypericum’ may have worked better.
Photo D
I did take several shots and tried to use my favourites, the rest wont see light of day again.
Other Photography Failings
- I failed in composition even though I tried hard to divide the frame into thirds and place the interest on a crossing point. This is harder than I thought.
- So is picturing the main subject as though it was moving into the frame rather than facing out.
- Crystal sharp focus on the critical part of the photo has been sacrificed to an extent in favour of decent depth of field automatically without engaging brain.
- I have done no cropping or editing – I very seldom do.
- Some backgrounds are a distraction but fortunately I have no unintentional lamp posts in view
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