But now that the snowdrops are well and truly out – and nearly being overtaken by later flowering plants such as crocuses and even the first signs of daffoldils, this weekend was finally a good chance to play with some macro flower photography.
And snowdrops are a good test for budding (sorry – couldn’t resist that one!) macro flower photographers as they are tricky little things to photograph. Not only do you have the usual focus-critical problems of macro photography, but snowdrops are white – which always adds difficulty to getting a correct exposure – tend to hide in darker corners, are small, and tend to be grouped in awkward clumps.
So how to get better results when doing macro flower photography – especially when photographing snowdrops? Well, based on attempts a few years when I didn’t get this right, and this year getting much better results I’ve put together a small tutorial on how to improve your macro flower photography, using the humble but pretty snowdrop as an example.