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Lens Flare

Saxon Holt — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 01:49:01 +0000

At one point or another all garden photographers will have to deal with lens flare. Too much strong directional light will cause the glass in the lens to disperse the light – flare, and affect the quality of the image. The flare will wash out color and reduce contrast. It is not always so [...]

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Hardscape in garden photos

Saxon Holt — Thu, 30 May 2013 20:17:28 +0000

To get a good garden photo, look for hardscape to help define your composition and tell the story, a story about the structure of the garden, how it is put together, what elements, besides the plants, make it work. In this lesson of the PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshop, we continue the assignment theme “Think Like [...]

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Tools for flower photography

Saxon Holt — Mon, 13 May 2013 00:45:22 +0000

You have heard of farm to table ? Here is garden to wall. I simply could not resist making a PhotoBotanic illustration of this Iris in my garden. My studio was all set up from yesterday’s rose shoot and I wanted to practice photo stacking on a more complicated flower than a rose. Off into [...]

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Photos on the Road

Saxon Holt — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:03:40 +0000

Should you even try to take pictures when the light is horribly wrong ? This is the dilemma of any garden photographer when traveling or going into a garden that you may never get to see again. How do you get some kind of picture worth sharing, something beyond the snapshot that serves as a [...]

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Photos in the Garden

Saxon Holt — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 04:43:03 +0000

Want a tip on how to take good garden pictures ? Pick up your camera and go out into a garden. You can’t get good pictures if you don’t take any pictures. Put yourself in a position to make something happen. April 2 was a day to take photos in my own garden. It was [...]

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Get Inside the Garden

Saxon Holt — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:56:06 +0000

Think Like a Gardener – Design and Shape. The PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshop – Lesson 3.1 [...]

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Think Like a Gardener

Saxon Holt — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 04:55:15 +0000

If you want to be a garden photographer you need to think like a gardener. You are not just taking a picture of a landscape, you are photographing a garden. This may seem obvious, but it is important to keep it in mind as you look at a scene and try to tell your story. [...]

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Photographing Grasses

Saxon Holt — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:55:22 +0000

More than any other group of plants, I love to photograph grasses. They bring light, motion, and texture to gardens. They range widely in size and color, and mix well into all garden styles, from beds and borders to meadows and in containers. Because they are so versatile in blending into gardens they can be [...]

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Seeing the Garden 2.6 – Details and Vignettes

Saxon Holt — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:09:15 +0000

When you set out to photograph a garden, don’t miss the details and vignettes. Often the essence of what you see can be distilled down to distinct details, details that tell the story of what you feel. This is the last lesson in “Seeing the Garden”, chapter two of the PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshop. Throughout [...]

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Photo Lesson 2.5 – Leading Lines

Saxon Holt — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 07:42:37 +0000

When trying to find a photo in a garden, a key concept is to look for leading lines. These are lines you, the photographer, find in a garden that can lead the viewer’s eye into the photo. These lines can frame your composition and lead to focal points as well, but fundamentally they must start [...]

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