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AuntiPode wrote:
Exactly. You've chosen a difficult task. Most rewarding tasks are difficult. If they were easy, everyone would do them. I am very curious to see your take on flowers. Good luck!
Actually I sometimes think that developing a unique style is not at all difficult..it is more innate than developed. I rarely get a chance to shoot with others, but last Fall three of us shot the same small garden for a couple of hours. We basically even shot the same plants and same flowers. The differences were remarkable. After looking at a few images, we could look at new images and easily identify the individual photographer based on a quick glance. So maybe it is not the style that is difficult, but trying to apply that style to communicating something to the viewer.
I am not a gardener. I don't know or care about the names of plants, or how to grow them or where they are found. For me shooting a whole plant, or a whole flower or showing the flower in the environment is not important. Instead I try to capture a closer more intimate look at the world of the individual flowers. I thought about calling this a bug's eye view, but found that term is usually used to mean shooting from down low and looking up at the flowers. I rarely shoot from that point of view.
From time to time, I will post some additional flower images and I have dumped a pile of them on my webpage. I tend to suffer from a lack of objectivity. I always seem to expend a great deal of energy and work into my photography. I am not sure how that happens when I am just strolling around a garden taking pictures, but I suppose I have a character flaw that means I make a big deal of what should be easy. In any case after all that work, I get a few decent images and because I worked for them I tend to believe they are going to be liked by others.
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