Impervious to curious stares and half-hidden giggles, I waded into the flowers in front of Chuy’s Tex-Mex restaurant in Tallahassee to snap photos after lunch today.
I had to crawl over a barrier to get to these pretty blossoms. Yes, I’m a rule breaker.
Sheepishly I shrugged my shoulders at a watchful employee, “They’re so pretty,” I explained.
He just grinned. Thankfully no one called the petal patrol to take me into custody.
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I am not a fan of flower photography… BUT… these are really nice. You should take more of them. 🙂
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Oh! Thank you. I’m not much of a photographer–these were all taken with my old iPhone. But flowers are such nice subjects.
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It matters absolutely zero what kind of camera you take photos with. I use recyclable cameras that have been run through multiple airport X-ray machines, and still have produced shots that look as good as fashion photography (been told this by professionals). It is the choice of subject and the angle from which they are shot. Plus, with the iPhoto feature on a MacBook Air for example, you can take an average picture and create world class gallery level photography. So don’t limit yourself by thinking you are “not much.” You can be a truly great photographer with just a couple of photos, a unique angle, and simple software. Honestly! 🙂
My advice? Look at the flowers and focus on what makes you curious about them. Follow your curiosity, then shoot what you discover. More often than not, photographing a single part of an object is a powerful way to suggest the entire thing, rather than just shooting the entire thing.
Good luck!:)
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Great advice!
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A fun way to shoot flowers is to isolate a single flower on a plain white surface and photograph it from directly above: (avoiding shadows) so it looks like it is floating up against a wall. Plus, the color(s) stand out more when they are contrasted with the white. It is little things like that which make a photograph go from a picture to a “statement.” The simple/little details are where brilliance is revealed.
Painting three black stripes with Japanese ink on a canvas is amateur; painting one with a drip nearby is genius….
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Nice pics. At my nephew’s wedding some years ago now, little baskets of rose petals were the confetti. The mother of the groom, my sister Elizabeth, spent a fair amount of time poking her lens into the baskets. She got lots of giggles.
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