{"id":57682,"date":"2015-08-03T10:30:29","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T09:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amateurphotographer.co.uk\/?p=57682"},"modified":"2015-08-06T10:27:28","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T09:27:28","slug":"top-tips-for-photographing-borage-blooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/technique\/landscape_photography-technique\/top-tips-for-photographing-borage-blooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Top tips for photographing borage blooms"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
\n\t\t\t\"Borage,<\/a>\t\t\t

Photo by Colin Roberts<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

With poppies and lavender a firm favourite with photographers at this time of year, it\u2019s easy to forget about borage.<\/p>\n

A beautiful flowering herb, borage blooms from June to August, and while it\u2019s native to the Mediterranean it is hardy enough to grow in the UK.<\/p>\n

With its vivid blue flowers, borage is a popular choice with gardeners, and the cucumber-flavoured leaves can be used in summer drinks or the flowers used as decoration. Borage is also grown on a commercial scale, cultivated for borage seed oil, so it\u2019s possible to find large fields full of vibrant blue.<\/p>\n

While the flowers are plentiful, they are also quite small, making them a bit of a challenge to shoot. However, you can make the most of each situation by searching for any possible focal points.<\/p>\n

Top tips for photographing borage blooms<\/h2>\n
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  1. One option is to shoot from a low level with a telephoto lens. This will effectively compress the swathes of flower heads to make them appear more densely packed and therefore stronger in colour.<\/li>\n
  2. If you want a wideangle view that encompasses the surrounding landscape, be sure to move in very close on the nearest flowers (using f\/22 for sufficient depth of field), so they\u2019ll loom large in the foreground.<\/li>\n
  3. Unlike lavender, borage isn\u2019t planted in tight lines, so building some linear perspective into the image is difficult. Consider including hedgerows or stone walls as lead-in lines to help convey a feeling of depth.<\/li>\n
  4. Borage is quite a bushy plant, which means that the \u2018tram lines\u2019 (the twin tracks commonly seen in crop fields, which are handy\u00a0for adding structure to compositions) become overgrown and indistinct.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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