Close-up Photography Idea: Using Water As Background

October 27, 2007

This close up photo of a wild flower is taken against the backdrop of flood water back in my unnamed village, which is located in between Kampung Tingkalanon and Kampung Morion in Tandek, in the northern part of Sabah, the Malaysian state on Borneo Island.

Flood water, or for that matter any large bodies of water, can be an excellent background for close up photography. Not only that the watery background can easily be diffused to give a very blurry background for a subject, using water as a backdrop also gives the photo a sense of tranquility.

If done correctly, you could have a picture with which you could almost listen to how “peacefully quiet” the surrounding is.