Wed 22 Aug 2007
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.”