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Photographing Flowers: Inspiration*Equipment*Technique | 
 enlarge | Author: Sue Bishop
Publisher: Photographers' Institute Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 249116
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 156
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 9.8 x 0.6
ISBN: 1861084137
Dewey Decimal Number: 778.9343
EAN: 9781861084132
ASIN: 1861084137
Publication Date: August 28, 2006
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Product Description
Flowers are often a photographer’s favorite subject, and this sumptuous manual covers all the practical skills and aesthetic considerations involved in shooting an array of blossoms. Whether the image is a close-up of a petal or a long shot of a landscape brilliantly in bloom, author Sue Bishop’s inspirational compositions celebrate color and form: they move beyond straightforward depictions of flowers into something more abstract, personal, and unique. She presents three comprehensive sections that cover technical matters such as equipment, lighting, exposure, and depth of field; using color; and artistic concerns such as the use of backgrounds, soft focus, and special effects.
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 Inspirational flower photographs August 18, 2008
The book contains (very) good pictures of flowers. The subtitle (Inspiration, Equipment and Technique) is a little misleading since only the basics of Equipment and Technique are covered. These basics are covered in clear text and good pictures. Examples of use of color are good.
The inspiration part of this book is good since the book contains a lot of beautiful pictures which take you off the beaten track.
 Photographing Flower by Sue Bishop May 7, 2007
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
I am very happy with the book. The wrapping was seamless; the images are beautiful; and the tips are practical and they work.
Her Flower Photography is Art November 30, 2004
27 out of 28 found this review helpful
Not only is this book beautifully visual to look at, it is full of information and ideas. Though it's not for digital cameras per se but for 35mm instead. Photography is subjective and you can use the information to make you a better photographer. The same information about technique, philosophy, etc. can be used when you shoot with your digital camera. Many digital cameras have similar functions so that the information found can be carried over such as manual vs. auto focus. Lenses and filters can translate to using filters in Photoshop or another graphic manipulative software. The author's favorite filters are warm up, polarizer and soft focus which can be replicated in Photoshop.
She urges you to experiment with aperture priority to control the depth of field. Term "depth of field" refers to the zone in a photograph which appears to be completely sharp. Just using the camera's Auto mode is unlikely to succeed in how she creates her beautiful photos of flowers. She makes them look ethereal or more like art. There are many examples of flower photos at different apertures and shutter speeds which helps you to understand the concept. With digital cameras being so popular today I think many of us never turn the knob to something other than "Auto".
The technical aspects in this book are very important but what affected me the most were viewing the beautiful flower photos. The author prefers impressionist and abstract painters and it shows in her photography. Creating abstract views brings us up close and personal. I have been photographing my garden flowers for years but come next summer I will certainly look at them differently through my lens because of this book. I highly recommend this book if you seriously enjoy photographing flowers or just looking at the beautiful prints. What is a book for but to expand your mind and perhaps to make you look at a subject in a different way. This book certainly does!
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