Shooting Spring Flowers
Shooting spring flowers is a great exercise in composition. How do you manage the foreground, background, “middleground”, focal point, colors, perspective, depth of focus, highlights/shadows, etc? Shooting dense flower beds really helps you to explore your compositional style.
I like shooting dense flower beds, in particular, because you need to strictly control the elements that appear in your frame. Are you going to keep that leaf, the other flower, or the base of the background flower in the photo? How can you manage the viewers’ perspective relative to the ground and the sky? How can you make the picture “edgier?” In particular, how do foreground and background colors change the feel of the composition?
Anyways, I highly recommend visiting your local park in the spring. You can learn a lot about your own compositional style, likes and dislikes without having to do much trekking!