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2.2 Focal Points

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2.3 – Leading Lines

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2.5 Space and Shape

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The Photo Workshop

I really have been having fun running garden photography workshops. Each class has become a lesson on one particular theme, and students always surprise me with what they find. You too can learn – by...

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Composing with Color

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Frost in the Garden

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Composition with Sculpture

Our workshop last Saturday at Quarryhill Botanical Garden was Composition and Balance.  The garden is having a contest to feature the current sculpture installation by Bruce Johnson, so naturally, I...

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Today’s Tip – Thinking About Thirds

The Rule of Thirds almost always comes up in composition workshops.  It is a "rule" that a pleasant  balance comes when organizing a composition into two unequal shapes (1/3 and 2/3), creating some...

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Visualizing a Composition

One of the basic techniques that I use in my workshops when teaching composition is about Space and Shape, chapter 5 of Think Like A Camera   When considering how to frame a photograph, when studying...

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Photographing Rose Bouquets

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Tripod Point of View

I always use a tripod for my professional work.  Not only does a good tripod allow a rock steady camera for sharp photos and good depth of field, it forces me to think carefully about composition. The...

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2.3 – Leading Lines

When trying to find a good photographic composition in a garden, a key concept is to look for leading lines. These are lines, either straight or curved, that you, the photographer, find that will lead...

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2.5 Space and Shape

Most of us see in three dimensions, but a camera sees in only two. In this lesson, as we learn more about seeing the garden by thinking like a camera, we need to understand at the outset that the...

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The Photo Workshop

I really have been having fun running garden photography workshops. Each class has become a lesson on one particular theme, and students always surprise me with what they find. You too can learn – by...

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Composing with Color

On a cool gray autumn day I went looking for color in my garden. I did not expect to see a red hole into another universe.  In fact, I didn’t even realize it was there until I contemplated my original...

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Frost in the Garden

For those of you in real winter climates, please humor this Californian who went photo crazy in the garden the other morning when it got all the way down to 24.  Some of you only wish it might get up...

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Composition with Sculpture

Our workshop last Saturday at Quarryhill Botanical Garden was Composition and Balance.  The garden is having a contest to feature the current sculpture installation by Bruce Johnson, so naturally, I...

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Today’s Tip – Thinking About Thirds

The Rule of Thirds almost always comes up in composition workshops.  It is a “rule” that a pleasant  balance comes when organizing a composition into two unequal shapes (1/3 and 2/3), creating some...

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Visualizing a Composition

One of the basic techniques that I use in my workshops when teaching composition is about Space and Shape, chapter 5 of Think Like A Camera   When considering how to frame a photograph, when studying...

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Photographing Rose Bouquets

Photographing Rose Bouquets is excerpted from the forthcoming PhotoBotanic Guide to Photographing Roses.  Discounts on the preorder page. I do love photographing roses in the garden. As a gardener I...

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