Again, we get a link to a project-based lesson, when the knowledge of basic photography concepts is far more useful and broad-reaching.

Form, composition, color, light, exposure: these are all basic ideas covered in any beginner photography tutorial. The fact that midday sun is harsh and unflattering is always talked about. (It's the same for portraits and landscapes.)

I suggest readers to find a basic primer on photography (deadtrees are far better than the web for this purpose) and do not get slowed down by the piecemeal approach of random project-based lessons.

You will reach mastery of the craft of photography far faster by taking a methodical learning of its concepts and techniques.

Deprong Mori

I can't stress the angles issue enough. Nothing kills the interest of a photo faster than taking it at eye level (with crappy flash lighting!) so that it looks like 99% of the photos the viewer will ever see in their lives.

Jason Fitzpatrick

Its non-existent... Snow should be gone by tomorrow though!

scandy

My grandfather use to make videos of flowers blooming with a vhs camcorder back in the early eighties. That would be a lot easier of a project now a days with digital video! My Gramps was just ahead of his time, little did he know.

anthonylitz

I did this last summer actually.

I took a photo or two of a couple potted tomato plants with my Moto Q every morning as I left for work. I put my thumb in front of the tomato to give a sense of proportion. It worked marvelously.

Unfortunately, then we had a horrible hail storm that wiped out my crop, and my little photo project! :]

anthonylitz

I took a bunch of photos of our garden last year after a gardener had de-weeded it. That way I would know what is a weed and what isn't--- its often hard to tell early on.

So the purpose wasn't artistic, but rather as way of creating a visual memory of what the garden SHOULD look like (when someone doesn't neglect it like I have so far this spring :(...)

slip

Here's one of my bell peppers! I'm really so excited, my tomatoes are starting to bud too. I've been blogging about them: [monkeystitch.blogspot.com]

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MonkeySwitch

Oh, why did you post this now!? I was going to start planting a herb balcony garden once I moved into my new apartment! :P

Silver_Back

@Deprong Mori:

Any specific recommendation to a book to start with? For SLR's if it makes any difference?

Myles

For those of us who live in the East -- can we revisit this say late May, June, when we can actually show things growing outside, rather than dirt where stuff will come up when it is not so cold?

noasalira

Ok, so it doesn't work. I have no idea what the heck is going on, but apparently lifehacker doesn't want my better picture and doesn't allow me to edit my last post(s).
Here is [farm4.static.flickr.com] the link.. which hopefully WILL work. (or check at flickr, user falleri)

falleri

Where did my other photo go? Argh! Well, I hope it will work now, since the other one (of the same subject) was so much more interesting...:

falleri

falleri

@falleri: Your flowers (and photos!) are beautiful!

wickedcupofjoe

And just because I think they are gorgeous, lol, here's another photo of some more. :)

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wickedcupofjoe

Here's one of my tulips. :)

wickedcupofjoe

Great timing! This year, I finally got it in gear to take pictures of the garden from the beginning of the growing season.

All that said, I'm now reduced to hoping that the flowers I've planted so far make it through the cold weather we're supposed to get midweek. Sneaky ol' nature...

MameDennis

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Here's one of my asparagus shoots. Yum!

ketzl

[www.gabrielmcgovern.com]

OK ... since everyone else is showing off photos. Here are some shots I took on a particularly nice day last spring.

gabrielm

I took a few pictures a couple of years ago. You can see them at my flickr account: [www.flickr.com]

lagattack

Well I only have weeds in my garden, but I'm documenting them here:
[guci.hu]

guci

We have been photographing our urban gardening. It is turning out well. For the best photos turn off the flash and turn on the macro photo settings.
Get close to the item and make sure that the camera doesn't move. Also a good way to reduce camera movement is to turn on the timer, and set up the camera, press the button and step back so that there is no camera movement when it takes the photo.

Here is a strawberry I took a few days ago: [farm4.static.flickr.com]

You can read about our garden at my wifes blog Urban Garden Hoe, [www.urbangardenhoe.com]

elmofromok

I took these when playing with my new camera in Macro mode.

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filpaul

Here's a brief tour of our garden and orchard from last June. I like the shot of the yellow squash...

applewax