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Learn tips to photograph your garden at home from Barbara
Pintozzi, garden blogger at Mr. McGregor’s Daughter.
TIP OF THE WEEK
When taking photographs of your garden, take the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Seeing your garden in a photo will teach you more about your garden than you will ever be able to do in person. Study the photo, note the angles, witness the stuff you walk by everyday, such as the hose, the utilities, the play set and such.
By evaluating your photos, you can better place screens and see what changes can occur to improve what your mind is making corrections for. If you shoot digitally, print out the image and draw-in your vision. It’s amazing how effective this can be.
Sketch your idea over a photograph
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For a real eye-opener, take one in black and white to see where you need texture and contrast.
That’s a great idea, Les. Thanks! H.
At different times of the season, take a photograph of your garden from the same vantage point, so you can see how the garden changes over the years.
When you plant new additions, photograph them when they go in the ground, so you’ll remember when and where you planted them. Not as silly as it sounds.
Rather than leaving the tags in the ground where they’ll deteriorate (and look messy), photograph the front and back of new plant labels, and keep them in a file (digital or print). If digital, the pictures will be date-stamped, so you’ll have a record of the exact plant name and the date of purchase/planting.
I did the vantage point each month of my Arbor Garden, then I made a slideshow and it was dramatic how much a garden could change just in 30 days. Plus it was fun to see the difference between covered in snow and mid summer in full bloom.
Racquel, I’ve done that as well. It really is nice to look back on as little as 30 days to such such big changes. H.
This certainly does two things. Makes one pose the shots so as to take these objects out of the frame. It also makes you realize that these things become invisible to us over time. The camera always sees them!
Some great ideas here;-) I need to organize the photos that I’ve taken. That’s my main problem. I AM taking them, though:-)