Question on Photography of our flowering bulbs
totototo@telus.net (Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:12:23 PST)
The best photos demand cleanup of debris and other distractions in the frame.
My co-Victorian PBS subscriber, Diane Whitehead, is meticulous in this regard.
It's a treat to watch her peer through her view finder and then carefully
remove dead leaves and blades of grass and other such before actually taking
the photo.
In a windy environment, it's perfectly kosher to use a clothespin on a tripod
to hold a plant stem steady. In dappled sunlight, a diffuse reflector or even a
thin scrim overhead will even out the light and get rid of the pattern of dark
and light.
A point-click-point-click-point-click approach will produce more pictures, but
a lot of them will be distinctly secondrate.
Even with the cheapest little digital point-and-shoot camera, there *is* a
viewfinder: use it.
PS: even those cheap digitals have provision for mounting on a tripod. Get one
and use it.
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Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Maritime Zone 8, a cool Mediterranean climate
on beautiful Vancouver Island