For beginners, photography is an exciting medium. The chance to go outside and take everything from vast landscapes, to stunning shots of speeding racing cars. On vacation, out exploring new countries, or just larking about on a beach. But sometimes it's nice to go back to the simple things in life - and the sheer pleasure of capturing a single flower, or a whole field of flowers, should not be overlooked.
So how can you ensure that the flowers you see in the wild look just as lovely when you view them back on your monitor, or better still, print and frame them? Well, it's not just a matter of simply walking past some flowers and snapping your shutter - the way you take flower photos is key to success.
There's no doubt that capturing a flower in full bloom is the ideal. So timing is everything - you will need to find out when they are going to look at their best for you - flowers like to pose too!
A key element to any photograph is the quality of the lighting. To best capture your flowers, a bright sunny day is preferred. It's very difficult to make flowers look truly amazing in drab, overcast conditions. Not by coincidence, they appear much more at ease in sunshine.
Successful flower pictures can be taken with most modern digital cameras, but if you can use one that enables you to control aperture and depth of field, this would be an advantage. You could check out one of my previous beginner's photography articles on controlling aperture and shutter settings to improve your photos.
It's usually best to "dress down" for your flower assignment. At least, wear jeans - as invariably you will have to kneel, or even lie, down in order to get up close and personal with your chosen blooms.
So once you are there, try and be creative. Flowers can be pictured in a host of many ways - but just experiment and enjoy yourself. Don't forget your basic rules of composition, so include a point of interest the viewer can focus on. For instance, in a whole field of flowers, you could isolate one single flower, keeping it in focus and blurring the remainder, altering aperture settings to control depth of field. Consider altering the colour of this one flower later on, in Photoshop.
You could even try lying down amongst the flowers, so you can view the world from their perspective. Why not picture the petals close up, with the camera pointing up slightly in order to catch the bright blue sky. Experimenting with pictures of flowers can be a fun aspect of beginner's photography, and as you get more experienced at it, you may find that your images become a more serious study into the world of flowers.
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