Creative Flower Photography

Creative Flower Photography

Flower photography is a favorite type of photography for many people. Flowers come in a huge variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. Combine this with the bees and butterflies that flowers attract and photographers fairly swarm around flowers in bloom. Flower photography has some unique challenges when compared with other photography subjects.

In flower photography, the small size of many flowers often cause photographers to struggle when trying to fill the frame with the flower. Each lens has a minimum focusing distance that restricts how close we can get to the flower and still keep it in focus. For zoom lenses without macro capability, this distance can sometimes be 3 or more feet from the subject.

With larger subjects, minimum focusing distance isn’t usually an issue. But when dealing with flowers the instinct of the photographer is to move as close as possible in order to fill the frame with the flower. In doing this, the photographer will move closer until the flower cannot be focused on and then will move back slightly. The problem is that when the lens is on the borderline between being able to focus and being too close, a slight wiggle of the photographer will put the flower out of focus.

Photographing flowers can be one of the hardest things to do. I have deep respect for any photographer who manages to do it well.

Photo : Gary*

Photo: rosemary*

Summer Light

Yellow Rose

Flight of the Bumblebee

Bent Beauty

Bathed in the sun

fire in the fields

MY LOVE OF FLOWERS, and ‘beauty’

Datura II

Tulips

Beautiful Flower

In Blue . . .

Radially . . .

Midnight Blue

Blue Flower

Flowers

Flower

Flowers

Blue Butterfly

When it all blows over