I hope this text will give you some flower photography inspiration.
When I started out taking photographs of flowers I was in awe of some of the beautiful images I found of other people's Flower Photography.
At times it made me despair that I would never be able to take pictures like that – party because I didn’t know how to take such a beautiful image and party because I didn’t think I necessarily had the skills needed to make such beautiful works of art.
As time has gone by I have realised a few things about flower photography and I wanted to share these with you.
A lot of these staggering beautiful images have been heavily edited in various software programmes – tweaked and manipulated to make them look gorgeous. Skies can be replaced, colours changed, and extras added in to produce some true stunning results.
Now, I have nothing against this, nothing at all. Photography is an art and as such each individual can do with their images as they see fit and indeed I see no reason why this shouldn’t be encouraged and applauded.
But the point I'm trying to make is that when you take a snap shot whilst out for a walk on a nice summers days and you look at your image later when back at home, please don’t be despondent that it doesn’t seem to match up to some of the flower photography images you may see on the internet.
I am not much good at using photo software. I have tried a few time to 'learn' photoshop but it confuses me and seems overly complicated for my needs. I have Lightroom and find this suit me just fine. You can tweak the exposure and contract and saturation and things like that but you can't add in a new sky or make composite images – and that’s fine with me.
I am lucky enough to have taken some 'award winning images' in my time. But I would just like to say that these images were perhaps just one of hundreds of images I might have taken that day. I would see a flower or a flower scene that 'looked promising' and just start taking pictures. Usually, at first, the images were 'okay' but not great. But as time went by and I tried different approaches and various angles the images would get more exciting, more unusual and general just 'better'. With a bit of luck, by the end, I would have achieved two or three nice shots but also hundreds that were just plain 'average'. Sometimes, nothing at all would happened and none of the images would be any good.
Don’t give up on your flower photography, enjoy taking flower pictures, experiment and have fun. You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your Prince!
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