New Works

Research and Emulation - Flower Photography

I chose to emulate Paul Chong, a flower photographer. When taking my photos, I made sure to look at the angles from which he took his photos.

Paul Chong

In this photo, I used the same depth of field and focusing on the petals of the flower, not the center and not the surrounding foliage. He explains that it is extremely important to focus on the flower and not have a complicated background. It is one of his favorite types of fine art photography in that it is simple but there is so much detail to draw from.

Paul Chong

This is also my photo and I did not use the exact same type of flowers but he used a very interesting way of depth of field. He chose certain flowers to focus on and then as things got further away, they also got my blurry. I used that idea to emulate the photo and I think that it was pretty successful.

At the end of this project, I made transfers of the flowers that I then put in a picture frame. I think it was a successful emulation, especially because many times people need direction when taking photos of flowers, because it is hard to figure out what to focus on, and by emulating his photographs I was able to see examples of what I should be doing.

Here are a few more examples of flower pictures that I took.

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