How to photograph wildflowers

Thank you Robert Worrell for emailing me this image. It shows how I photograph wildflowers. I cut out the bottom and the back of this small light tent. It serves three purposes:

First: It creates a soft, diffused light which lets me photograph even in bright sunlight

Second: It helps in windy situations to keep the flower stable

Third: I can photograph the flower in the native environment and the cut out back preserves the natural background

I also like to mention that I use a small travel tripod as much as possible and the lowest possible ISO to avoid camera noise as much as possible. My favorite lens is a Canon f.4.0 70-200L lens which is extremely sharp and most of all not so heavy (every ounce counts when you are hiking in the back country). I use it in combination with a Kenko extension tube. I disable automatic focus and use the screen on the back of my Canon camera to pre-focus manually.

Happy photographing!

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