The Field Guide to Photographing Flowers

This is a guide to photographing flowers. It approaches the subject according to the areas of interest to amateurs: flower species and their habitats, camera equipment (including a section on point and shoot cameras), lighting, exposure and composition. It address such specific flower-photography topics as: filling the frame with colour, closeups with flash, "gardening" the background, depth of field and focusing and separating the subject from the background.