How to shoot lotus flowers in summer?

Lead: How to shoot the most common lotus in summer? In summer, there is such a spectacle in the city park in the south: as long as there is a lotus pond, there will be groups of photographers with long guns and short guns and thick black SLR holding their breath, clicking and clicking, and the shutter sound is endless ... Yes, they are making lotus bamboo shoots that are common in summer but test their endurance every year.

However, you can't get good works by getting up early and being greedy, and you can't get good results with good equipment. Some people pursue poisonous equipment, but they don't care in practice and shoot it hastily; Some people often shoot and practice, but they have not accumulated good aesthetic quality. The works they shot were still ordinary for many years.

These people are caught in a strange circle of photography, that is, they lack thinking. Picking up a guy is just a slap in the face, okay? Don't sum up your experience after filming? I don't know how to make progress and shoot features and new ideas. Lotus flowers occur every year, and people who study photography have also photographed them, but the theme of lotus flowers is easy to learn but difficult to master. How can I shoot a work that makes people shine?

We might as well learn from the following shooting suggestions:

1, the composition is balanced, avoiding the confusion of the background.

If the lotus in the pond grows well, flowers and leaves, crowns and stems may be intertwined and crowded. If you want to avoid confusion and highlight the main body, you can adopt the method of opening the aperture to reduce the depth of field, so that the lotus leaf becomes a big color block in the background; In addition, using telephoto to compress space is also a common method to blur the background.

Photography is subtraction, the background should not only be concise, but also the composition should be balanced. Different colors, objects and positions are weighted. In addition to the composition principles of Jiugongge and trigonometry, the use of light and color will also bring different feelings to composition. Excellent elements can be combined to create a sense of balance.

2. Choose a beautiful lotus theme, which can be set off by a lotus leaf.

Facing the lotus pond in the region, it is very important to spend more time thinking and looking for the flowers you want and pay attention to choosing the theme with beautiful shape. You can choose fresh, tender, blooming and declining lotus flowers according to your needs, and you can observe the morphology more. Good lines and formal sense of theme will give you room for imagination.

Pay attention to the position in the early stage, change the position and composition angle, and try panoramic, middle and close-up views. Still hiding half of her face behind her guitar is also a good foil. In addition, in addition to lotus, you can also choose lotus leaf, lotus leaf and residual lotus.

3. Contrast cold and warm, and create the color atmosphere of lotus flowers in different time periods with late or white balance, so that the picture is full of story and drama.

Colors with different tones and lightness are one of the most obvious visual differences of objects. By choosing post-stage, white balance and shooting time, photographers can actively create contrast in different time periods, creating a cold and warm atmosphere.

Although the lotus flowers photographed in the morning and evening are all warm colors, the color temperature is different at different time periods, and the warm colors in the evening are more intense. Therefore, by observing the atmosphere of light, we can know more stories outside the picture.

Cold and warm contrast can also make the subject and background in sharp contrast, and the subject is more prominent. We have seen many residual loads in summer, but they are not common in ice and snow. The addition of blue cool tones and the warm sunshine in the morning are in the same frame, and the photos are naturally more attractive.

4. Pay attention to the shooting timing and make good use of backlight/side backlight.

Getting up early and getting greedy is a photographer's daily life. The best time to shoot lotus flowers is in the morning with fresh air, between 6 am and 8: 30 am. If it rains the night before, Wan Liqing will be the next day. Lotus has phototaxis, and will slowly start to close after ten o'clock in the morning, so even the light at night is suitable, but if it is not a special theme (such as residual lotus), it is not a good choice. After all, the light is warmer in the afternoon, and the timing of lotus blooming is not easy to grasp.

Different light will cause different light and shadow effects. It is more obvious in the layering of lotus flowers and lotus leaves. The use of shadows can quickly distinguish layers and highlight bright subjects. Backlight and side backlight are beneficial to outline the flower bone and naturally hide the messy background, which is a good way to make the composition concise and enrich the picture level.

5, the combination of reality and reality, the picture is hazy and artistic.

Flowers are not flowers, fog is not fog, and the combination of reality and reality will give people a specious artistic conception. If you are tired of taking regular lotus pictures, it is better to try to blur the background and increase the mystery by putting down the cigarette cake, exposing it many times, shooting with a mirror, etc.

Smoke cake is a physical method, so pay attention to the wind direction and whether it is allowed in public; The function of multiple exposure has been built into many cameras since Canon EOS 5D Mark III, which is easy to use and easy to understand. You can take photos of lotus flowers with soft focus superposition effect according to the instructions. The catadioptric lens is a manual pan/tilt, and the size of Jiao Wai doughnuts can be manually controlled according to the photographer's preference. Before shooting, the location space of Lotus and Jiao Wai Donuts should be determined.

6, creative shooting, full of charm in the later period of imitation painting.

Creative shooting and post-processing of imitation painting based on ps, such as watercolor painting, ink painting, printmaking and meticulous painting, are all good results.

Conclusion: No matter you are Meng Xin or a mage with many years of experience, you should think more and clear up your own shooting ideas on the premise of shooting more and practicing more. Comparing other people's works, combining reality with their own experiences, is the shortcut for old drivers.