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Whether in your garden or a vase, flowers charm and enchant the eye with their dazzling colors and delightful shapes.
Here are some tips to help make your flower pictures equally charming and enchanting. | | | | Use a simple background
Find a position that provides a plain, non-competing background or place a black or pleasingly colored cardboard behind the flower. | | | | | | Get close
If your camera has a close-up focusing mode, use it and get as close as the camera manual suggests. With a digital camera, use the display screen to compose the picture. Accessory close-up lenses are mandatory for dedicated flower photographers. | | | | | | Shoot at different angles
Vary the level of your viewpoint Shoot down to
create attractive pinwheel patterns of daisies; kneel to the level of other flowers, such as tulips and daffodils. | | | | | | Use creative lighting
Observe the lighting on your flowers. Backlighting shining through some flowers gives them an appealing glow. Cloudy-day lighting reveals subtle hues. | | | | | | Control the wind
Is the wind tossing the tulip about? Bring the tulip indoors and
create an attractive still life that you can easily photograph. Put the tulip in a vase and place it near a window. Or use a piece of cardboard to block the wind. Choose your camera angle so the cardboard doesn't show in the picture. Or choose a colored board and position it to block the wind and to serve as the background. | | | | | | | |