How to focus the flowers?

This technology is ridiculous at first glance, but you will be very shocked after telling you how to do it. Don't wait until it rains, just take a watering can full of water and spray it on the flowers. I found a very beautiful little watering can in the boutique. As long as you spray it with a watering can a few times, there will be very lovely water drops on the petals. No one will know that you spray with a watering can, instead of waiting patiently for the gift of Mother Nature. Take a small watering can and put it in the camera bag (empty bottle, of course). Once, one day after a spring rain, I took some photos of the yellow roses I gave my wife on the lawn of the White House. You can also try this method. It works every time.

Tips unrelated to photography:

There is another little-known advantage of putting the watering can in the camera bag: ironing wrinkled clothes. Spray a few drops on shirts, undershirts, photographic vests and other clothes before going to bed, and you will find that wrinkles are gone when you get up the next day. I know this has nothing to do with photography.

Step 2 shoot flowers on a black background

Flower photography has a shooting method-shooting a single flower on a black background, and the photos taken are fascinating. Of course, you can add a black background to Photoshop, but this method is too laborious. Professional photographers put a black background behind the flowers when shooting. My old friend is a very influential landscape photographer. He told me this method-he will wear a black jacket when he goes out to shoot flowers. If he sees the flowers he wants to shoot, he will ask his assistant (or friends, wives, passers-by, etc. ) Raise the back of the jacket behind the flowers. I know, it sounds exaggerated, but just try it yourself. If I shoot flowers indoors (almost every time I buy flowers for my wife or my friends send us flowers), I will buy some black velvet or velvet and put it behind the flowers as the background. You can support it with something (I once put a velvet background on my son's cookie jar). Leave a few feet between the flowers and the black background (so that the light will dim and the black background will look black) and you can start shooting. So, what kind of light is the best? Please continue reading below.

Step 3 shoot on a white background

Another very popular flower photography method is shooting on a white background. Buy a roll of seamless white paper from the local camera equipment store (very cheap), but it is usually wider than you need. Unless you are shooting for a flower shop, you usually don't want to see a vase. So I will go to the office supplies store and buy two or three 20×30-inch whiteboards (similar to bulletin boards, but thicker and harder). Usually I put a white board behind the flowers (in a vase), and then use another board to reflect the natural light (from the window with indirect light) to the white background, so that the photos will not look gloomy. Similarly, there is a gap of about 3 feet between the flowers and the background. In natural light, it is much easier to photograph flowers on a white background than to add a white background in Photoshop.

Shower curtain using skills:

If you have a shower curtain (the usage of which will be discussed below), there is another way to save money: use it as a white background. If you use a shallow depth of field, you will never know that the white background is a shower curtain. Don't shoot with f/ 1 1 or f/ 16, or people will say "the shower curtain is really beautiful" or "did you shoot it in the bathroom?"

4. Ideal light source for indoor flower photography

If you shoot flowers indoors, you don't need to buy expensive photographic lights (not necessarily), because the flower picture taken with soft natural light is better. When the soft sunlight outside the window is not direct but scattered, the photos taken are great. If your window is dirty, it may be better, because it makes the light more diffuse and softer. Therefore, in rooms, studios, offices and other places, we must find a window with no direct sunlight. Then put the flowers near the window and let them take photos sideways (if they are facing the light, the photos taken will have no three-dimensional effect). Now set up a tripod and shoot at the same height as the flowers (remember, don't shoot from above). Now you can shoot in beautiful and soft light without spending a penny (at least you don't have to buy a photographic lamp).

How to artificially create ideal natural light;

If you are facing the harsh sunshine outside the window, you can change the light artificially and buy two things in supermarkets such as Wal-Mart: (1) white frosted shower curtain (or shower curtain pad); (2) Some pushpins or pushpins. Pin the frosted shower curtain to the window, so that you can enjoy shooting with this ideal scattered light. Don't worry, I won't tell this secret to anyone.

5. Where can I shoot beautiful flowers?

This question sounds confusing, but I can't remember how many times I talked to the photographer. They always say, "This question has never occurred to me." In order to take beautiful photos of flowers, you need to go to a flower shop to buy flowers (see, this is a simple question). You can choose any flowers you want (I like to take pictures of roses, calla lilies, lilies and daisies), and the flowers you buy must have good patterns (fresh). You can refuse any flowers with spots or bad patterns they give you, and you don't need them to pack them. It takes less than 100 RMB to photograph the blooming and amazing flowers (although sometimes it takes a day or so for the roses to bloom).

Step 6 stop the wind

If you shoot flowers outdoors, you may meet the natural enemy of flower photography-the wind. The tripod is set up, the camera is aimed at the subject, and the focus is completed. We can only wait there until the wind slowly stops. Nothing is more depressing than this. It's even worse if you shoot with a macro lens, because even the slightest shaking will cause disaster (exaggerated, the photo will be blurred). You can try the previous method and block the wind with your body (in fact, this is very ineffective), but you can actually solve this problem with the camera itself. Select the shutter priority mode (used to control the shutter speed, and the camera adjusts other settings according to this speed to make the exposure moderate), and then increase the shutter speed to 1/250 seconds or faster. Generally speaking, this freezes wind-induced motion (unless it is a hurricane). If the faster shutter speed still doesn't work, there is a second scheme that can be implemented, that is, turning the wind into the main body. By the way, if you can't beat it, then bow your head-with a slow shutter speed, so that you can see the flowers moving (press the shutter and you will see the trajectory of the flowers moving), and you will "see" the wind and have a different view. Try this "watching the wind" method, maybe you will love this shooting method.