How to shoot flowers with a mobile phone

Photography is a knowledge of grasping the opportunity. The beauty of picking flowers has a time limit, and it is also a time of appreciation! Take a walk in nature, carefully observe flowers and trees, and create a good opportunity to capture the beautiful image of the flower fairy at any time! So do you know how mobile phones shoot flowers? Let's have a look!

Mobile phone flower-shooting skills

Three Taboos for Shooting Flowers by Mobile Phone

No backlight shooting

In other words, shoot with a mobile phone in front of the sun. In this case, the photos taken are often black, and the exposure situation is simply invisible. It is recommended to shoot with smooth light and side backlight.

Second, avoid writing without a theme.

Too much background will lead to the theme of the flower is not prominent at all, and such photos should not be praised by many people in the circle of friends.

Three bogey background messy.

The background is too messy and the theme of flowers is not prominent.

These three outstanding problems are the most common problems for many novice photographers to shoot flowers. Pay attention to the direction and intensity of light when shooting, and shoot at a suitable angle to ensure the proper exposure of the main body of the picture;

Composition needs to find the main body of the flower, and at the same time pay attention to whether the background is messy. A simple background can make the theme of flowers more prominent.

Some practical skills

Flowers that highlight shallow depth of field

The depth of the scene means that the background is blurred. Taking pictures of flowers at close range by mobile phone will have a certain degree of background blur effect. The main flower is clear and the background is vague, which naturally makes the theme of the flower stand out. But when shooting, we should pay attention to the accuracy of the focus and the simplicity of the background.

Blank composition

It is estimated that many photographers "Xiaobai" can't understand the composition of blank space. Blanking is to make the background as clean as possible and make the theme of flowers stand out in the clean background. For example, shooting with the sky as the background will get a very clean background and highlight the theme of flowers.

Low angle shooting

Low angle is a special shooting angle, because it is not the normal visual range, so low angle shooting often gets some pictures with good visual impact. Flower shooting, you can also try a low angle, you can get a different picture from the conventional perspective, and bring some special picture impact.

In addition, if there are many people and sundries around the shooting scene, a simple sky background can be obtained by shooting at a low angle, which can better highlight the flower theme.

Pay attention to the color matching of the pictures.

The flowers in spring are mainly warm colors (pink, yellow, red, etc.), so the color of the picture is mainly warm colors. Generally, when shooting, try to avoid cold elements, create a warm atmosphere and highlight the theme. Of course, the contrast between cold and warm colors can also highlight the theme of warm flowers, but such a shooting scene needs to control the color ratio in place.

scenery close by

When flowers bloom, there will be many bees collecting pollen. How can we catch the bees picking flowers?

There are generally two shooting methods:

First, close to the shooting, use the shallow depth of field effect to blur the background and highlight the moment when bees pick flowers. The advantage of this method is that the focusing speed will not be too slow to catch bees. Disadvantages are limited shallow depth of field and blurred background.

Second, adding an external macro lens to shoot can get a shallow enough depth of field effect to highlight bees, but the macro lens will greatly reduce the focusing speed and may not capture the flower picking moment of bees for a long time. This method requires the photographer to have enough patience.

Use a black background

The pure black background is easy to highlight the flower theme, which can be realized by post-processing. By using the halo, local and brush functions of Snapseed, the background can be easily blackened. Black background can remove impurities in the background and highlight the theme of flowers.