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Creative Garden Photography

Author Harold Davis
Release Date: 2020/07/01
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Book Description

Make great photos of flowers, gardens, landscapes and the beautiful world around us

Gardens are everywhere, all around us. In this long-awaited guide to garden photography, noted botanical photographer and author Harold Davis tackles the subject of garden photography with an expansive brush. In this book, you’ll find techniques for photographing extreme macro subjects while becoming a better landscape photographer. From tiny flowers to vast landscapes, your photography can be enhanced using the techniques you will discover in Creative Garden Photography.

What is a garden? The topic of garden photography encompasses a huge range of photographic styles and techniques that can be applied to almost any kind of photography. Learn to use this toolset from one of the acknowledged modern masters of photography.

    • Explore gardens, types of gardens, and how best to photograph them
    • Create stunning floral macros and high-key imagery
    • Learn techniques for adding impressionism to your photos
    • Use light and creative exposures to enhance your imagery
    • Master close-up focusing, depth-of-field, and focus stacking
    • Create your own custom field studio “in a bucket”
    • Complete exposure data and the story behind every photo

“My goal as a photography teacher and writer about photography is to inspire and to help you become the best and most creative photographer and image-maker that you can be.”
—Harold Davis

“Harold Davis’s etherial floral arrangements have a purity and translucence that borders on the spiritual.”
—Popular Photo Magazine

“Davis is a pioneer and a new art form—part photographer, part digital illusionist.”
—Rangefinder Magazine

“Harold Davis’s Creative Photography series is a great way to start a photography library.”
—PhotoFidelity



TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

ENTERING THE GARDEN
Understanding Gardens
Garden Styles and Purposes
Different Kinds of Garden Photography
Garden Purpose and Design Informs Photography

OF LIGHT AND GARDEN
Sunrise, Sunset, Blue Hours, Golden Hour

ON LOCATION: THE ROMANTIC GARDEN, SCHWETZINGEN AT SUNRISE, GERMANY

ON THE IPHONE: SNAPSEED

USING A TRIPOD
Using a Tripod for More Creative Options
Tripods for Garden Photography: Materials, Legs, Types of Heads
Tripod Tips and Tricks

BLENDING EXPOSURES TO EXTEND RANGE

BLACK AND WHITE IN THE GARDEN
Photographing the Zen Garden

ON LOCATION: IMPERIAL GARDENS OF OLD NARA, JAPAN

CONVERTING TO BLACK AND WHITE

IMPRESSIONISTIC PHOTOGRAPHY
Camera in Motion
Subject in Motion with Camera Stationary
Creative Exposures
In-Camera Multiple Exposures
Post-Production

ON LOCATION: PHOTOGRAPHING MONET'S GIVERNY, FRANCE

ON THE IPHONE: WATERLOGUE

FOCUSING ON REPETITION
Compositions with Repeating Garden Elements and Patterned Spaces
Best Practices in Focus
Depth of Field

ON LOCATION: THE PARC DE SCEAUX, FRANCE

FOCUS STACKING

DRAGONFLIES, BEES, AND WASPS
Stopping Motion
Getting Close
Dealing with Those that Sting
Auxiliary Lighting: Reflectors, Macro Strobes, LED Lighting

WATER DROPS AND SPIDER WEBS
Refractions in Close-Up Photography
Spider-Web Studio

MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY GEAR

GARDENS OF THE MIND

PRINTING GARDEN PHOTOS

NOTES & RESOURCES
Off-Beat Garden Photography Tools
Places to Practice Garden Photography
Recommended iPhone Apps for Garden Photography
iPhone Workflow
ImageBlender

NOTES AND RESOURCES
GLOSSARY
INDEX

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Dedication
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. What’s Not to Like about Gardens?
  7. Entering the Garden
    1. Understanding Gardens
    2. André Le Nôtre and the French Garden
    3. Garden Styles
    4. The Backyard as Garden
    5. The Garden as Status
    6. The Importance of Garden Design
  8. Photographing the Garden at Large
    1. Of Light and the Garden
      1. Intensity of Light
      2. Diffusion
      3. Light Direction
      4. Checklist: Finding the Right Position
      5. Understanding Reflectivity
      6. Color and White Balance
      7. Exposure and Light
      8. Key Takeaways about Exposure
    2. Special Times for Lighting
    3. Using a Tripod
      1. Creative Options with Tripods
      2. Anatomy of a Tripod
      3. Tripod Legs
      4. Tripod Heads
      5. Using the Tripod in the Garden
    4. Focus and Depth of Field
      1. Being in Focus
      2. Soft Focus
      3. Camera Position
      4. Tilt-Shift Lenses
      5. Focal Length
        1. Types of Lenses
        2. Focal Length and Depth of Focus
      6. Manual and Autofocus
      7. Depth of Field
        1. Aperture and Depth of Field
      8. Infinity and Hyperfocal Distance
    5. The Garden in Black & White
      1. Converting to Black & White
    6. Extending Dynamic Range
      1. Multi-RAW Processing
      2. High-Dynamic Range (HDR)
        1. Automated HDR
        2. Hand-HDR
    7. Impressionistic Photography
      1. In-Camera Motion
      2. Subject Motion
      3. Out of Focus
      4. Creative Exposures
      5. In-Camera Multiple Exposures
      6. Gardens of the Mind
  9. Taking the Garden Close-Up and Inside
    1. The Art of Transparency
      1. How Light Box Photography Works
      2. What Kind of Light Box Works Best?
      3. Arranging Flowers on a Light Box
      4. Light Box Photography
      5. Post-Production of High-Key HDR Images
      6. Inversions in Post-Production
        1. Understanding LAB Color
        2. Inverting a White Background to Black
        3. Brightening Images after Inversion
    2. Photography on Black
      1. The Flower as Diva
      2. Low-Key Photography in the Field and Studio
      3. Low-Key HDR Post-Production
    3. Macro Photography
      1. Macro Photography Gear
        1. Macro Lenses
        2. Extension Tubes and Bellows
        3. Close-Up Filters
        4. Focusing Rails
      2. Specialty Gear
        1. Extreme-Macro Lenses
      3. Macro Photography in the Garden
      4. Focus Stacking
        1. Focus Stacking in Photoshop
    4. Photographing Water Drops
      1. Approaching Water Drop Photography
      2. Reflections and Refractions
      3. Spider Web Studio
    5. Photographing Little Critters
      1. Getting Close
      2. Stopping Motion
      3. Focusing and Critters
    6. Auxiliary Lighting
      1. Modifying Light
      2. Macro Lighting Tools
  10. Notes, Resources & Index
    1. Where to Go for More Info
    2. Sensor Size Matters
    3. About EXIF Data
    4. Focal Length
    5. Cameras and Lenses
    6. List of Figures
    7. Locations of Gardens Photographed
    8. Botanical Glossary
    9. Photographic Glossary
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