FACTFILE
Gardeners’ world
RHS WISLEY GARDENS
THE ROYAL Horticultural Society is the UK’s leading gardening charity that enriches everyone’s life through plants and makes the UK a greener, more beautiful place. Located off the M25 near Woking, RHS Wisley is one of the world’s great gardens; it’s packed with horticultural inspiration such as the Glasshouse, a cathedral-like greenhouse housing world-class tender plant collections.
APPRENTICE
MATTHEW is an optician from Peterborough who loves to get out and about with his newly acquired Canon EOS R7 APS-C mirrorless camera. He’s an amateur natural world photographer and loves shooting wildlife as well as close-ups with his macro lens. He asked for help to expand his knowledge of other natural world subjects such as gardens, plants and flowers so we arranged for him to spend the day with Canon pro garden photographer, Clive Nichols, at RHS Wisley.
CANON PRO
CLIVE IS Britain’s best garden photographer and author of the recently published book, Brilliant English Gardens. He also runs workshops on plant and garden photography across the UK in locations including RHS Wisley where we met up with him for our photoshoot. His clients include magazines such as Country Life, The English Garden, Gardens Illustrated and House & Garden. Clive was the Gordon Rae Photographer of the Year in 2017. For more information go to www.clivenichols.com
TECHNIQUE ASSESSMENT
Using the Av mode, set the aperture, and ISO, and let the semi-automatic setting do the work
APERTURE PRIORITY
Clive put Matthew’s Canon
