Botanics Too.

?It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary.?
David Bailey

Following on from yesterday's image I went and had a look around the web to see what kind of botanical images photographers had come up with. First up was the work of Karl Blossfeldt. So, I thought I could have a go at doing something similar for today's challenge. Not quite as simple as I thought!

First I needed to set up on the tripod so that I could stop right down. Needed to get the camera looking down on the subject though so after a bit of humming and hawing, I I inverted the top pole on the tripod so that the mount was on the underside. (This is blindingly obvious when you think about it, but really hadn't thought of it before!). I then held onto the camera for dear life until I was sure that it would stay in place.

However, even with the macro set at silly small aperture, getting the depth of field necessary to make one of Blossfeldt's images proved a bit tricky. Difficult to get in close enough to get the magnification and retain clarity throughout. I know this programme is supposed to do the business though. Anybody ever tried it?

Anyway, that all kind of threw me off track. Was amazingly difficult to find the right bit of plant to do the architectural thing. Need to keep looking!


Aside:

Blossfeldt's images were replicated on paper using the photogravure technique.