My friend Roni over at the My Life at 50mm blog does an AMAZING job with flowers and so at a recent outing I tried my hand and shooting them. I'm no Roni, but it's also tough to flip a 70-200 lens backwards!
Shooting flowers really requires only a couple of things, at least as far as I can tell. First, a different perspective (standing over a flower and taking it's pictures is well...done already). The second is trying to capture what it is about the flower that makes it worth taking a picture of.
Is it a great blending of different colors?
Or, does it give you a chance to capture just the flower and isolate it from the rest of the world?
Just my thoughts.
Mitch
Mitch,
ReplyDeleteYou are just too sweet! Thank you for the shout out. You are doing such a beautiful job with that lens!! I find myself more and more impressed with every new photo you post. You must be really enjoying using it. I've added it to my long list of lens upgrades.:)
You are so right about perspectives. I love to shoot just one flower from a zillion different angles. It's really quite something to see them that way. There really is an essence to a flower..a personality of sorts. Seeing them from behind a lens, opens that up. I can't seem to get enough of it.:)
And NO. I can't imagine you ever wanting to turn that 70-200 in reverse. I still sometimes cringe doing it with my cheap lenses...I could never stomach it with your beauty.
Lovely lovely photos and thank you again for the kind words.:) I look forward to following your blog.
x
Love the post. great photos, nice and sharp great DOF and awesome colours.
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