Dear Garg ji and all, I feel this is high time to discuss about plant photography. Thanks to Dr. Rawat ji for pointing out the issue that is always there in our minds. Taking good plant picture, showing features that may be helpful in identification, is crucial and comes by experience. Since there are many expert photographers in our group, i wish, their experience can be shared among other members too. It will surely help this group in building up of a QUALITY image database of Indian plants with GOOD pictures.
In my experience, I learnt that just taking tight close up of flower (of course it will look beautiful) will not be enough and many pictures of the same plant showing a habit with habitat in the background, a twig that shows the arrangement of leaves and flowers and fruits etc. required to describe a species completely. For some species even number of seeds is a key character, hence, whenever i collect a Crotalaria species i always split a pod and take photo of seeds, at least to know the seeds are more than 30 or less than 10 etc. Similarly glands, exudations, stipules etc are to be covered in the picture to establish correct identity of certain species. So, the learners (new to photography) can ask questions (like how to set camera when the background light is more than that of the object? or how to focus a flower when its parts are in different planes? etc.) and the experts may like to answer based on their experience. As a learner, i have many questions relating to plant photography too and I hope many others also may need experts' advice in this regard. Thank you -- With regards R. Vijayasankar FRLHT, Bangalore --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "indiantreepix" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
