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August 2nd, 2025

Time: 12pm Eastern Time Zone

Cost $29.95

This is the most extensive flower program I have ever offered.

Covering, equipment, soft focus, everything in focus, filling the frame, water drop flower refraction, shooting through subjects, creating and working with backgrounds, natural backgrounds, finding character, flower backsides, backlighting, focus stacking, diffraction, working with silk flowers, composition, dead flowers.

This program is not being recorded, and there are no refunds if you can't make it. 

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Here is the finished image.  Shot this Dahlia at the Chicago Botanical Gardens.  Tamron 18-300 Fuji X-T30 MKll  f/32

Cropped from this out of the camera original, sharpened, and added a painted filter in Smart Photo Editor.

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I was heading to Grayling, Michigan to camp and hike some of the wooded trails for shooting opportunities. 

On my way to Grayling, I stopped at Dow Gardens in Midland. The Dow gardens was started 124 years ago by Herbert Dow who passed away in 1930. Over the years the gardens grew to 110 acres.

I planned my trip to be there right when they opened to avoid people traffic on the pathways. 

It was a perfect morning with no wind and overcast skies that looked like it might rain, so that helped keep attendees away during the couple hours I was there.

I didn't see many flowers I was excited about, but they do have a lot of interesting plant life that I have never seen before.  

I used some of the creative filters in Smart Photo Editor on some of the images.

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For many years I have been using printed backgrounds when shooting subjects with cluttered backgrounds.  Just place the background behind the subject and shoot whatever f/stop you want, in my case it's always f/32 because I want everything in focus.

There are sometimes when I get a subject with a natural background that works out very well and I don't need to use a background I and still shoot at f/32 to get everything in focus.

I have a lot more of these natural background images, so sometimes I get lucky and don't have to pull out my backgrounds.

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