Tulips

Tulips make excellent subjects for studying still life photography and exploring lighting. British photographer John Blakemore produced many fine art prints during his thoroughly intense investigation of these changeable flowers.

I encourage my friends to make their own eCards. Flowers can work well as digital artwork.

Table-top photography is best kept simple. It need not take lots of time or money to set up. In this example, I replaced the table with a chair, because it was easier to move nearer to a window.

 

The tulips were adjusted for colour & contrast in Camera+ before using TiltShiftGen to apply the selective focus effect, then cropped, a border added and the image re-sized in Photogene to reduce upload time (my village lacks Internet bandwidth).
The full screen of yellow "fill light" from the iPad was drawn in Brushes. The annotated guide shot was edited in Skitch.