The Goodman’s Blog: Lifelong Learning and Sharing

This was taken at Keukenhof (Holland) during one of my four trips there this May. I liked the way the tulip heads bowed as the wind blew. The formation also followed a curve of red and green, broken up by the solitary tulip on the bottom left of center.

Amateurs tend to shoot flowers only when they are still and there is no wind. Sometimes, a better photo can emerge when the flowers are swaying to the wind. It is difficult to do this with a handheld camera, as you have to set the shutter speed to a slower time, to show a bit of motion blur.

Amateurs tend to shoot flowers, top down. You should also consider stooping down or kneeling. There’s another world underneath, which can be just as beautiful as the top-view.

I often carry a tripod when shooting flowers, to minimize photo-blur.

Once I have downloaded the photo to my computer, I then re-composed the shot by cropping, to produce a better composition. Whenever I can, I follow the “rule-of-thirds.”