Photographing Flowers

Table of Contents

1. Cover
2. Title
3. Acknowledgments
4. Copyright
5. Contents
6. Introduction: Why Photograph Flowers?
7. The Worlds of Flower Photography
   1. Place and Scale
   2. Different Families of Flowers
   3. Understanding Flower Geography
   4. Flower Commonality
   5. Sex and the Single Flower
   6. Roses
   7. Poppies
   8. Ranunculuses
   9. Dahlias
8. Making Flower Photos
   1. Planning
   2. Choosing a Lens
   3. Macro Lenses
   4. A Comparison of Macro Lenses
   5. Gadgets and Gee-Gaws
   6. Using an Exposure Histogram
   7. Exposure and Flowers
   8. Determining the Right Exposure
   9. Working with Aperture and Depth-of-Field
   10. Focus and Sharpness
   11. Composition
   12. Understanding Light
   13. Natural Light
   14. Using Macro Flash
   15. Flowers in the Studio
9. The Bee’s Eye View
   1. Form Follows Function
   2. Runways
   3. The Core of the Flower
   4. Sex Appeal
   5. Flowers and Decay
10. Flowers in the Digital Darkroom
    1. Focus Stacking
    2. Enhancing Colors with LAB
    3. Georgia O’Keeffe Flowers
    4. Go van Gogh
    5. Post-Impressionism
    6. Flowers in Black & White
    7. Photographing on White for Transparency
    8. Photographing Flowers on Black
    9. Creating a Background for Flowers
    10. Beyond the Flowers We Know
11. Notes & Resources
12. Glossary
    1. Botanical Terms
    2. Photographic Terms
13. Index