Instruction in nature photography with digital cameras available from Nicholas Hellmuth, FLAAR.
This course is available over the Internet so you can take it from your home or office anywhere in the world.
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| Part of the garden of the hotel where Nicholas stays while in Guatemala. Tropical flowers are everywhere. Nikon D100, micro-105 AF. Notice that it holds the white point well (not in the jpeg over the Internet, but in the original image the white holds its detail. Color balance is auto white balance. | Flower noticed while wandering around the campus of the Francisco Marroquin University, one of two universities where FLAAR has its digital imaging equipment evaluation facilities. |
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| As you can see, Nicholas likes to photograph tropical flowers. Nature photography (with digital cameas) is thus a feature of the FLAAR course on digital photography. | Nicholas Hellmuth's digital photography course explains what cameras work best, which lens, and what technique. |
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Camera: Nikon D100 The photo course by FLAAR will provide help, tips, and information on nature photography (and on portrait photography, commercial photography and so on). We mention the nature photography aspect because the main office of FLAAR is in Central America , and bromeliads and orchids grow outside our office on the campus of Universidad Francisco Marroquin. The course is available anywhere in the world via the Internet. You do not have to be a student. The course covers lighting (especially for composition, architectural photography, portrait photography, and commercial photography). |
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Camera: Nikon D100 The photo course of digital imaging professor Nicholas Hellmuth includes sessions on composition. For example, this image “works” only in this vertical format. In this course you will learn how to modify the composition by changing the f-stop. Were the photos on this page accomplished with natural sunlight, with fill-flash, or with light reflectors? Nicholas discusses all these aspects of photographic lighting in the digital course that you can download at home, at the office, or even while you are traveling on vacation.
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Camera: Nikon D100 This photo is from directly above. The only way to photograph this is to use a tripod with an “arm” that can allow you to move your camera out away from the tripod legs. Here is Nicholas standing in the prickly bromeliad patch. You can find more information on this kind of tripod and ball head from BoganImaging.com. Look in their links for Manfrotto and Gitzo. Pineapples are close relatives of these flowers. Pineapples are also terrestrial bromeliads and are thought by some botanists to be native to Central America. |
You too can achieve enviable photographs of flowers. You may be able to do even better than the one here. We provide the inspiration and suggestions "how to" succeed in photography. And just wait until you enlarge your improved photos and show them to family and friends. Wait until people ask to buy YOUR PHOTOS to decorate their homes and offices. The course covers much more than just flowers. We just like using these as examples. |
The university is expanding our building (we will end up with twice the space we have presently). The construction site makes a great place to take photos that show what might be called random compositions. This shot has potential to be turned into a B&W giclee print. Of interest are the round shapes of the old oil drums, and the light and shadow of the ends of the pile of scaffolding. WEEK from July 5 to July 9 |
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Here we see an exercise in composition (the wheelbarrow), in textures (of the bricks), and in color (the orange against orange). Photographed with a Creo Leaf Valeo 22 megapixel back on Mamiya 645 AFD camera with a Mamiya macro lens, provided courtesy of Leaf, Leaf America, and Parrot Digigraphic, jlorusso@parrocolor.com. You can learn about medium format digital photography, how it differs from 35mm digital cameras from Nikon, Kodak, and Canon, in the course by Nicholas Hellmuth. WEEK from July 12 to July 16
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Creo
Leaf Valeo 22, Mamiya 645 AFD, Mamiya macro lenses used as
portrait lens, manual focus, hand embroidered handicrafts for sale in
Panajachel, Guatemala, Central America.
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Creo Leaf Valeo 22, Mamiya 645 AFD, Mamiya macro lenses used as portrait lens, manual focus, Panajachel, Guatemala, Central America WEEK from July 26 to July 30 |
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Updated September 20, 2004.
First posted July 15, 2003, June 16 2004, July 20 2004, July 26 2004.