June Assignment - Close up Flowers

The assignment this month is to take a close up image or series of images of flowers.

Make the flower fill the frame (iPhone 13, cut flower in the Greenhouse, taken vertically from above to hide the vase and set the table as an abstract background, portrait mode used to blur the background)

Hints

• The image/images should focus in on a single bloom. It can be of a cut flower or "in the wild"
• Make the flower jump out as the subject
• Get close and personal
• Fill the frame (crop if necessary after taking the shot)
• Do not let the background interfere
• Blur the background (Use portrait mode on iPhone etc), or
• Choose a suitable background, or take your own
• Think about viewpoint
• The flower is the subject
• Look inside, zoom in on a detail
• Be different (not 1.5 meters off the ground)

  

  Not strictly a flower I know, but "get down and personal"
  Taken with DSLR and macro lens, iPhone can do similar

  
  
• Get close and personal (if this is difficult cut a flower and take it indoors to shoot)
• Depth of field will reduce as you get closer to your subject - set your focus point (tap on the screen) on the important part of the flower image.
• If shooting outside remember the wind and beware of your subject moving and blurring the image. You need a fast shutter speed (short duration) but the iPhone camera does not let you change the shutter speed. There are works around this using different apps (another time) so, in the meantime shoot on a bright day with little wind. Or take the flower inside!
• Colour is important with flowers, consider post production to boost saturation. But beware of making it look artificial, unless you intend to go abstract.

Not a single bloom but it illustrates the impact of a lower viewpoint