{"id":11159,"date":"2011-10-12T10:06:47","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T17:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11159"},"modified":"2011-10-12T10:06:47","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T17:06:47","slug":"help-with-plant-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/help-with-plant-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Help With Plant Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/6238157556\/\" title=\"Hypericum \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6052\/6238157556_1692d92481.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Hypericum\"><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Photo A<\/strong><br \/>\nPlease help with my plant photography!<br \/>\nWhich of these Hypericum &#8211; St Johns Wort photographs looks best and why.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/6237632261\/\" title=\"Hypericum \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6168\/6237632261_fd266898b7.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Hypericum\"><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Photo B<\/strong><br \/>\nThe West Yorkshire branch of the Alpine garden society had Peter Cordall as speaker on Saturday. The title of his talk was &#8216;Photography in the garden &#8211; garden landscapes to close-ups&#8217;.<br \/>\nWhilst I listened carefully I am painfully aware that I have breached many of his rules of thumb from the very start.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/6238153462\/\" title=\"Hypericum \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6034\/6238153462_7f1bebb28d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Hypericum\"><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Photo C<\/strong><br \/>\nI should have had a title and know what I was photographing before I started.<br \/>\n&#8216;Hypericum&#8217; is not a great title but &#8216;Hemispheres and Hypericum&#8217; may have worked better. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/6238159652\/\" title=\"St Johns Wort \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6101\/6238159652_e99064e79b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"St Johns Wort\"><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Photo D<\/strong><br \/>\nI did take several shots and tried to use my favourites, the rest wont see light of day again.<\/p>\n<h3>Other Photography Failings<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li> So is picturing the main subject as though it was moving into the frame rather than facing out.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>I have done no cropping or editing &#8211; I very seldom do.<\/li>\n<li>Some backgrounds are a distraction but fortunately I have no unintentional lamp posts in view<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I should have read up on <strong>Related posts<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/flowers\/top-10-flower-photos\/\">Top 10 Flower Photos<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/close-up-flower-photos\/\">Close Up Flower Photos<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/gardening\/the-perfect-rose\/\">The Perfect Rose<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo A Please help with my plant photography! Which of these Hypericum &#8211; 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 &#8216;Photography in the garden &#8211; garden landscapes to close-ups&#8217;. 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&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/help-with-plant-photography\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[248],"class_list":["post-11159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}