Inspired by some interesting comments from @19andrew47 and @Rich42 on flower photography (in the weekly C&C thread) and its perception as something not particularly challenging due to the already abundant beautiful features many flowers show, or at least something not in need of much artistic skill, as they’re beautiful in any situation or lighting, I wanted to create a thread where all of us get a chance to show the whole variety of possible flower shots and hopefully have some discussion on it as well.
So regardless of your approach to the subject, whether you try to replicate whole flowers as closely as possible to the original in your shots, create camera movement or post-processing experiments with them, dive into the world of extreme macro photography, create unique still life images or arrangements with them or anything else really… the choice is yours!
If you agree with my assessment, that flower photography can be as interesting, varied and (if you look beyond the quickest snapshots) challenging as any other kind of photography, please help by showing some samples and perhaps also describe your approaches and techniques a little bit, if possible.
Of course I’m also looking forward to any divergent or contrary viewpoints on the subject, but please let us know a little bit about your thoughts and reasoning.
And if you’re not into flowers at all, but like other aspects of Nature, perhaps take a look at the Forget flowers. Long live leaves! (Show your leaf/foliage shots) thread!
Way closer... to Spring by simple.joy, on Flickr
