Just north of Imlay City, Michigan there is the Ankley Family farm.  They charge a crazy low price of $10 to photograph the flower and sunflower fields.   I make one trip there each year, and typically wait until fall when the temps cool down. They have great Dahlias, and I mainly shoot the front side, but also watch for a good view of the backside. Here is the finished processed image. 

Here is the photo that came out of the camera.  As you can see, I used one of my printed backgrounds and shot it at f/32 for maximum depth of field. I used my Tamron 18-300 lens on the Fuji X-T30 MKll.

I cropped and used Smart Photo Editor to do the process you see in the finished image.

Save yourself some time learning flower photography by joining my Flower Photography Club online. Learn from the experts. FLOWER PHOTO CLUB - Mike Moats - Award Winning Macro Photographer

When I came up with the idea of an online Flower Photography Club my goal was to teach flower photographers a wide variety of techniques and styles of photographing flowers.

I have my style which is photographing flowers where everything in the image is in focus. I do have a lot of follower's and photographers that have followed my teachings and like what I do.

I do know that there are many other styles of flower photography that I don't teach so I set up experts in other styles of flower photography to teach the members.

The Flower Photography Club has a private Facebook group for the members to share their images from what they have learned from the different presenters.

What is rewarding for me is to see someone post an image with a new technique or style that they learned from a presenter and how excited they are to be expanding their flower portfolio of images and how much fun they are having learning new things.

Also, it is nice to see all the great comments complimenting the speakers on their presentations meaning I have chosen good people to teach them.

So, the new club is working out exactly how I had hoped it would.

We now are up to 652 as of this posting and if you are interested in joining and learning, here is a link to the info about the club.

FLOWER PHOTO CLUB - Mike Moats - Award Winning Macro Photographer

Shot at the Dow Gardens in Midland, MI

Fuji X-T30 MKll Tamron 18-300.

Here is the processed image cropped from a larger framing. Cropped out the dead flower in the lower right.

Processed in my favorite program, Smart Photo Editor.

Here is the original out of the camera.

Save yourself some time learning flower photography by joining my Flower Photography Club online. Learn from the experts. FLOWER PHOTO CLUB - Mike Moats - Award Winning Macro Photographer

This was shot a few years ago in my home. I bought at inexpensive Nikon D5200 camera body to make the point you don't need an expensive camera to produce good quality macro images.

Attached was the Tamron 90mm macro lens, f/20 @ 1.0sec, ISO200, natural light.

I processed the image in Smart Photo Editor.

Original out of the camera.

Save yourself some time learning flower photography by joining my Flower Photography Club online. Learn from the experts. FLOWER PHOTO CLUB - Mike Moats - Award Winning Macro Photographer

I was shooting at a flower nursery when I came across this weird flower that I'd never seen before.  It wasn't labeled so can't tell you what kind of flower it is.  I found one that had a daddy longlegs spider on it, so decided that one was the most interesting one to shoot.  Here is the finished image.

Here is the original out of the camera.  Shot a larger area knowing I would crop what I wanted.  As usually the images out of the camera are never as sharp as I want them, so added sharpening. Cropped what I wanted and then enhanced the colors a little, all done in Smart Photo Editor.

Save yourself some time learning flower photography by joining my Flower Photography Club online. Learn from the experts. FLOWER PHOTO CLUB - Mike Moats - Award Winning Macro Photographer