My first time shooting flowers.

[Eric DeCastro]

I'm going to be doing more for practice, but can you tell me what I can do better?
these were taken with 100mm USM f/2.0
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v447/icxprince/th_yellow.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v447/icxprince/yellow.jpg)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v447/icxprince/th_flower.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v447/icxprince/flower.jpg)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v447/icxprince/th_Cinco-de-Mayo.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v447/icxprince/Cinco-de-Mayo.jpg)

[robertwgross]

For the first one, I would recommend that you get a light tent. This is basically a collapsible white fabric cylinder that goes around the subject flower. It diffuses the harsh sunlight so that things will look more like the other two flowers.

The other thing that can be handy for flowers is a piece of black velveteen fabric. I use one piece that is about one square yard. If it is behind the flower, then distracting backgrounds do not apply.

---Bob Gross---

[Eric DeCastro]

thanks, I'll look into that. the light tent, i'm going just try and use a collapsable difuser.

[robertwgross]

Generally, with a collapsible diffuser, you have to get somebody to hold it in the sunlight path.

I have a collapsible light tent that surrounds the flower and extends upward about one foot or more, so light is diffused on three of the four sides, plus the top. You shoot into the fourth side.

Either that, or always shoot flowers on a cloudy day. But there are too many flowers that will furl, close down, or be otherwise non-photogenic on a cloudy day.

---Bob Gross---