Gallery 3
Trees and Flowers
Trees
Trees can be at their most delightful as they changer colour and before they shed their leaves.
To capture this beauty it often helps to turn the camera and take the photograph using the long axis of the photo so that you can include both the ground and the canopy of the trees. (This is known as using a 'portrait' mode.)
Image 18 Cressbrook Dale, Peak District National Park, UK
Image 19 Longshaw Estate,
Peak District National Park, UK
Trees in their setting
The silver birch trees in this image only make sense if their locational context is made clear. That is why I waited to photograph them until the purple heather of these moorlands had come into full flower.
Image 20 Silver birch and Caluna Vulgaris below Mother Cap, Longshaw Estate, Peak District National Park, UK
Don't forget the light
The secret of photographing trees often lies in the quality of the light that is falling on them. These larch trees would be dull and not worth your attention without the photogenic sunlight falling upon them.
Image 21 Light Through Trees, Longshaw Estate, Derbyshire, UK
The nature of the light is equally important when photographing flowers. A harsh light is never good, a soft side-ways glancing light is often close to ideal.
Image 22 In this garden scene not only is the light important but so is the composition. Study the image and you will see that there is gradation from front to back both in the height of the plants but also the brightness of the light falling on them.
Image 23 Pink, white and red Rhododendron close up of flower head.
Image 24 White Rhododendron close up of flower head.
As you will learn in the book "Photographing Plants and Gardens" there is a delight in photographing flowers in close-up. However, doing so demands certain conditions, such as a calm day. a tripod, and a good choice of aperture setting on your camera.
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