Flower Photography I
t’s Spring again, and a photographer can’t help but be drawn to taking pictures of flowers. The colors, shapes, and intricate details are visually compelling. Even if nature photography is not your calling, it must be hard to resist capturing this kind of beauty. Wide angle lenses Flower photography is not just about macro. Closeups of flowers are great, of course, but shooting fields of flowers also involves wide angle and telephoto lenses as well. For example, I took the photo of the wild lupine field, below, in
Switzerland with a 17mm wide angle lens. For the portrait above of a white ladyslipper on the forest floor in Michigan I used a 200mm telephoto to isolate the flower and render the
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