Gardens are everywhere, all around us. In this long-awaited guide to garden photography, noted botanical photographer and author Harold Davis tackles the subject of garden photography with an expansive brush. In this book, you’ll find techniques for photographing extreme macro subjects while becoming a better landscape photographer. From tiny flowers to vast landscapes, your photography can be enhanced using the techniques you will discover in Creative Garden Photography.

What is a garden? The topic of garden photography encompasses a huge range of photographic styles and techniques that can be applied to almost any kind of photography. Learn to use this toolset from one of the acknowledged modern masters of photography.

• Explore gardens, types of gardens, and how best to photograph them
• Create stunning floral macros and high-key imagery
• Learn techniques for adding impressionism to your photos
• Use light and creative exposures to enhance your imagery
• Master close-up focusing, depth-of-field, and focus stacking
• Create your own custom field studio “in a bucket”
• Complete exposure data and the story behind every photo



“My goal as a photography teacher and writer about photography is to inspire and
to help you become the best and most creative photographer and image-maker
that you can be.”
—Harold Davis

“Harold Davis’s etherial floral arrangements have a purity and translucence that
borders on the spiritual.”
—Popular Photo Magazine

“Davis is a pioneer and a new art form—part photographer, part digital illusionist.”
—Rangefinder Magazine

“Harold Davis’s Creative Photography series is a great way to start a photography
library.”
—PhotoFidelity


TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
ENTERING THE GARDEN
Understanding Gardens
Garden Styles and Purposes
Different Kinds of Garden Photography
Garden Purpose and Design Informs Photography
OF LIGHT AND GARDEN
Sunrise, Sunset, Blue Hours, Golden Hour