Los Angeles, California Exhibition

A while back, I took a series of online Fine Art Photography classes with Kathleen Clemons. Kathleen is a top class flower photographer and many of the other students in the class chose flowers as the subject for their weekly assignments. So I decided to give flower photography a try. It has been a wonderful vision training exercise, because it is quite a bit more difficult than one would think.

Pink Flower with out of focus background and texture — I carefully chose my focus point and my settings to render a nicely out of focus background, and added a texture to the photograph later in post -processing.

It is typically not possible to get the whole flower in sharp focus when shooting up close and one of the choices one has to make is which part of the flower one focusses on. The choice has a great deal of effect on the aesthetic of the final photograph.

Shooting flowers has also given me more intuition about how my lenses see the world. And while I still have a long way to go in my flower photography, I was thrilled to learn that two of my flower photographs, shown in this blog post, were chosen for the juried exhibition “Flower Power” at the 1650 Gallery in Los Angeles, California. Opening night reception is on December 14th, 2013.