Micro Floriate
Flowers are tough. The challenge comes in finding suitable subject matter, in bloom, in season, without insect damage or trims that ruin the botanical feel of the image. Flower photos can be a challenge getting the focus throughout the shot. The leaves should be uniform or poetically shaped, anything but bland and uninteresting. The coloration should be exciting and fresh, not dried out or sapped.
Floral images can provide vivid color to websites and brochures in a manner that introduces the color into whatever medium exists without too much trouble. Their tonal blends can establish a site wide palette. But flower photography in the “wild” can be frustrating when time is off the essence and experimentation. The lucky image captures that come with happenstance may not occur when focused studio approaches are applied.
Flowers grow in gardens, bushes, trees, by the roadside, come in antiseptic floral bouquets from stores and occur at random in gardens and in grasses. Getting a good shot takes art and practice. With each flower photograph the microstock professional takes, the challenge to perfect the techniques grows more complex. The “grab” beyond the mere color and line of the plant becomes the challenge.
With a good camera, the images that come through will slowly evolve from unfocused or blurred backgrounds to clear throughout the shot. The micro setting will deliver only as good an image as can be grabbed. But color alone can’t convey the floriate shape and plant detail suitable to the microstock floral image market.
