Building your Photography Reference Library
Looking to learn more about how to take better pictures of flowers in order to combine your love of gardening with your passion for photography, try picking up an excellent coffee table style book and studying the images. These types of books contain the very best quality images of the subject. They will give you ideas about how to compose the image and what lighting works best. It isn't the text that you are interested in so much as it is the photographs. Often the text will help you learn more about the subject but the images will show you what you should be looking for in a great image.
Field guides are excellent resources to keep in your library. Almost every magazine, stock agency, or bureau will require a photographer to accurately label and identify all images. You may have an award-winning image of butterfly but if you can't identify it, the image is worthless as far as they are concerned. It is your job as a photographer to identify your subjects. Field guides will help you identify the subjects of your photos.
They usually have excellent pictures along with the descriptions to aid you in identifying a particular species. Field guides also give the photographer of well of other very important information such as location, habitat, diet, or behavioral patterns particular to each species. This information not only helps in the identification process it also gives the photographer an edge because it will tell him where to look for a certain subject and what to expect when he finds one.
Uses
All right, so now that we have figured out what books to add to our reference library and we have run around gathering up the books that we want, what do we do with them. Barring the obvious answer, which is to read them, let's look at how they can help us for years to come. That
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