How does the camera shoot flowers?

Flower photography looks simple, is it true? I mean, they are static, colorful and very attractive. People like to look at flowers. There is little skill in taking good pictures of flowers. But is this really the case? Of course not. Here are some flower photography skills I have compiled for your reference.

Flower photography skills 1, don't photograph it.

In daily life, when you walk in the field and see wild flowers, or walk on the garden path in Shang Huashi, you will bend over and look at those flowers carefully. If we stand by and look down on the flowers in our daily way, the photos we take will be very ordinary. Why? If you want to take a photo with visual impact, you must take it from an angle that we rarely look at every day. In other words, don't shoot down, but squat down and choose an angle that is level with them. There is one thing that professional photographers often do, but amateur photographers ignore it. If you want to shoot flowers well, you should be prepared to get your hands dirty or at least your knees dirty. The above picture shows their differences: the left picture is a typical aerial photo; The picture on the right shows that 30 seconds after the photo on the left is taken, the same flower is shot with the same focal length lens under the same light, but * * * one knee * * is shot from the side, not from above. You can see the difference between photos taken from unconventional angles. So, if you want to shoot flowers well, at least don't shoot them. By the way, when you are squatting there, try to be * * * lower than the flower * * *, and then shoot it from a charming angle.

Flower photography skills 2, shooting with a zoom lens

Flower photography does not need macro lens * * * close-up lens * * *, and it can also take good flower photos with zoom lens for two reasons:

*** 1*** You can often enlarge the flowers to almost fill the whole picture;

* * * 2 * * When shooting with a zoom lens, the focal length cannot be aimed at the background, only at the flowers.

First select the aperture priority mode * * * and set the mode dial to A***, then use the minimum aperture value allowed by the camera * * * That is, if your lens is f/5.6, use f/5.6***. Then focus on a flower or a dense cluster of flowers. When doing this, the background is blurred, so the picture has a strong visual impact.

Tip: Protect your knees.

If you plan to shoot a lot, there is a very cheap accessory that you can't buy in the camera equipment store, and that is knee pads. They are very useful. You can buy it in a well-equipped household goods store, convenience store or garden store.

Flower photography skills iii. Focus at close range with macro lens

Do you find it strange that professional photographers can usually see bees spreading pollen in close-up photos? Actually, they took it with a macro lens. The macro lens can reproduce the images of the subject and flowers at the ratio of 1: 1, which only the macro lens can do. The macro lens has a shallow depth of field. When you shoot a rose, the petals in front are very clear, and the petals in the back are naturally blurred. I'm not talking about a bunch of roses in a vase, but a rose. Remember, remember, when using a macro lens, you must use a tripod to shoot. Take a picture with your heart, and any slight jitter will ruin the picture. You can refer to the sharpening technology in the first chapter to show amazing macro flower photography.

Tip: Use a macro lens instead of a zoom lens.

It's very simple, just add a close-up lens to your daily zoom lens * * * We'll talk about it on the next page. As I said, this close-up lens * * * is also called binary close-up diopter * * * which is cheaper than the complete macro lens. Just add it to the zoom lens and it will have zoom function. You can buy a unit close-up filter. Although the edges of photos are generally not very clear, it doesn't matter for taking flowers.

Flower photography skills 4. Is macro lens too expensive? How about a close-up

I learned this trick from my old friend Moose Peterson, who is a famous outdoor and natural scenery photographer. He can convert a long-distance zoom lens into a macro lens, the price is only 1/4, and the weight and volume are only110. It looks like a thick filter * * * about 1 inch thick * * *. By combining Nikon and Canon lenses like traditional filters, the zoom lens is turned into a macro lens. The advantages of this close-up are as follows:

*** 1*** is small and does not occupy space;

***2*** is only a few ounces * *1ounce =28.35g***, which is very light;

***3*** The most important thing is that it is very cheap compared with an original macro lens of at least 4000 RMB.

It's called Canon Close-up * * * Even a Canon lens can be combined with a Nikon lens. This is what I know. Canon equipment can be used in combination with Nikon equipment. I matched the Canon close-up 500D with Nikon 70~200mm anti-shake lens * * * 77mm * *, and the effect was very good * * *. How much is this combination trick? Depending on the lens size you want, it ranges from 560 to 1 100 RMB. That's good, right?

Flower photography skills 5. When will it be taken?

There are three ideal shooting times.

* * *1* * cloudy. After clouds cover the sun, the shadows are softer, and the bright colors of flowers will not be diluted by direct sunlight. So cloudy days are the favorite weather for flower photographers. In fact, there may only be another time that is more suitable for shooting than cloudy days. What is this?

* * * 2 * * Shortly after the rain. For flower photography, this is a very magical moment. At this time of shooting, there were clouds in the sky and rain beads on the flowers. Of course, in order to protect the camera and yourself, don't shoot when it rains. If you have a macro lens, taking pictures with it will have amazing effects at this time. When you shoot with a macro lens, don't forget to take pictures of rain beads on leaves and stems, which can set off the color and delicacy of flowers. * * * Of course, if you use a macro lens, don't forget to shoot it with a tripod.

***3*** If shooting in sunny days, try to choose morning and dusk. In order to make full use of the light at this time, shooting with a long zoom lens, you have to stand in the background of flowers, so as to shoot a very magnificent background light, which is of course limited.

Flower shooting skills

Flower racket skills:

Main skills:

1. Selected

You don't have to stay long before the first flower you see. The flowers here are often gaunt by the sidewalks where people come and go. You might as well keep looking for better ones. Study the common flower varieties in your area in advance and find out their flowering period.

Start as soon as possible

Try to shoot in the morning, when the wind is light and the light is soft. Determine the shooting method you plan to use and bring the appropriate lens-it can be wide angle, macro or telephoto, depending on the subject you plan to shoot.

Step 3: Stable support

Hand-held camera to find the best composition, determine the position, set up a tripod. Choose an appropriate aperture-choose f/ 16 for maximum depth of field, and f/4 or f/5.6 for shallow depth of field. Set a low ISO value, use the cable to release and turn on the pre-lift function of the reflector to ensure the clarity of the photo under the low-speed shutter.

Practical skills:

1.

Shooting at sunrise will not make the flowers sway and make the picture unreal when the wind is relatively small or even there is no wind. Early morning flowers often have dew, which can enrich the three-dimensional sense of the picture.

Soft light

Try to avoid direct overhead light, which will lead to excessive contrast, thus making photos easy to overexpose. If necessary, you can soften too bright light. For example, you can shoot in your own shadow, or you can use a filled flash or reflector to brighten the shadow.

3. The highest quality

Try to use the lowest ISO setting to ensure the best image quality and accuracy. But this often means that the shutter speed needs to be reduced, so remember to use a tripod to avoid the influence of machine vibration.

Transform multiple angles

When you find a flower suitable for modeling, you should fully tap its expressive force. Try your best to be creative and try many things. Flowers can't run, you can patiently observe and shoot from all angles, and change different lenses to create different effects.

Different Composition and Emphasis of Creative Fuzzy Experiment

How you describe your subject depends largely on the lens, aperture, focus position, light and composition you choose, any of which will have a great impact on the final effect of the picture.

Shallow depth of field can effectively separate and highlight a specific element, while placing the other elements in Jiao Wai. In macro photography, this effect will be very dramatic, and any slight change in the focus position will greatly change the picture effect.

You can put the camera close to a bunch of flowers, pass through them and focus on a flower in the distance. This will create a halo-like blur around the subject, and only the subject is clear.

What are the shooting skills of flower photography?

Lead: Flower photography has many special requirements in technique, which is different from portrait and landscape photography. So what are the shooting skills of flower photography? Come and have a look with me!

What are the shooting skills of flower photography?

Flower photography in photography, like landscape photography and portrait photography, has become an independent category, with flowers as the main creative theme and photographic object. Flower photography refers to the shooting of natural and artificial bonsai or still life with flowers as the main object.

Background processing is an important factor to determine the quality of flower photography. Background plays a role of contrast and contrast in flower photography composition, and it is particularly important to take color photos. Background is not the main object in the picture, but it occupies a large area on the picture. The simpler the composition of flowers, the larger the area occupied by the background, which is a factor that cannot be ignored in flower photography.

Use natural conditions to choose the background and use local materials.

Natural scenery, such as sky, ground, grassland, lake, forest, etc. , you can choose as the background. For example, if you take a picture with lotus as the theme, the background can be varied, and the background of the later lens can be the sky. Upward shot can be made of water reflection as the background, and flat shot or oblique shot can be made of lotus leaf as the background. If you push the lotus far to the middle scene and use lotus leaves, lakes and mountains as the background, the result will be different.

Manual layout background

Use colored paper or colored cloth to set off the flowers as the background. The purity and brightness of the background color should not be too high. Generally speaking, the color should not be too fresh or too light, and the relationship between the color phase of the background color and the color phase of the main flower is better with the contrast color and the similar contrast color. The background color is generally dark, sometimes subject to the needs of the effect, but it can also be treated with light tone and high profile, but it should contain more gray, otherwise the background color will be too dazzling, which will destroy the whole subject and picture.

The use of light

The sunshine changes greatly in a day, which directly affects the angle of flower illumination and shooting effect. From the light analysis, within two hours after sunrise, the light is ideal and the modeling effect is good. It is best to shoot flowers in natural light. In the morning, because of the physiological function of flowers, they absorbed nutrients all night, and their colors were particularly bright and delicate. The shooting effect is very good, with clear colors, distinct layers, clear tones and moderate contrast.

General lighting angles are divided into five types, namely front light, side light, backlight, top light and scattered light.

Using front light shooting, the light distribution in the picture is large, and the light receiving surface of the flower is uniform, but the disadvantage is that the flower lacks three-dimensional sense and layering, and the color tone is dull. If you take a black-and-white photo, the effect is even worse, because the picture effect of black-and-white photos is expressed by the brightness of tones (that is, different levels of black, white and gray).

It is the most ideal and commonly used light to shoot flowers with side light (front side light or back side light). This kind of lighting has a good effect on flower modeling, with strong three-dimensional sense, distinct layers, moderate shadows and contrast, and harmonious and moderate contrast between color lightness and saturation.

When you shoot with top light, the light is projected on the top of the flower, and the front side receives less light, which leads to high contrast, lack of layering, poor color reproduction effect of the flower, high color temperature and easy blue photos, so this light is rarely used.

Using backlight photography, the light illuminates the object from the back, which can clearly outline the flowers and has a good modeling effect. If the petal texture is thin, it will be transparent or translucent, showing the texture, hierarchy and texture of the petal more delicately. When using this light source, we should pay special attention to the fact that the front of the flower must be full of light and set off with a darker background, so as to show the image of the flower more prominently.

Scattered light is also an ideal light source. It uses scattered light to shoot, which is not limited by the directionality of light source, with uniform light receiving surface, soft color tone and moderate contrast. If you choose to shoot the scattered light after the rain, the flowers will look clearer and more attractive.

When using a digital camera to shoot flowers, it is best to put the flash function in the "forced non-flashing" mode, and then use the spotlight to choose the appropriate shooting angle to shoot.

Cameras usually use the method of "interval shooting" to shoot blooming flowers.

Intermittent shooting: use a tripod to fix the camera, aim at the flowers and shoot one picture every few minutes until the flowers are in full bloom, and play it continuously when playing.

It should be noted that during the shooting process, neither the flowers nor the camera can move, otherwise the best effect will not be achieved.

How to shoot beautiful flowers?

First, the center composition

As the name implies, the central composition means that the subject is in the center of the picture. When shooting, turn on the grid line of the mobile phone or camera, so that the subject is in the middle position. The main flower is located in the center of the picture and is the most eye-catching. Flowers and bones are lining, and the picture has main body and lining, which shows the integrity of the picture.

Second, the left and right dichotomy composition

Triangular composition is to divide the picture into three parts vertically and evenly, and each part can put the main flower. This composition method is vivid and concise.

Third, the upper and lower three-point composition method

The composition of upper and lower trisection is to divide the picture into three equal parts horizontally, with the main body accounting for one part. The upper third is mostly used to shoot the branches of flowers, such as peach blossoms and cherry blossoms, and the lower third is mostly used to shoot the patches of flower fields, which is suitable for shooting big scenes.

Fourth, diagonal composition

Compare the shot picture to a rectangle, and the two diagonals of the rectangle are connected into a line, which is called diagonal. But in photography, the diagonal can be a straight line or a curve, especially for the shooting of flowers, there is no fixed requirement. Diagonal composition is characterized by a certain sense of extension.

V. Framework composition

Frame composition has a feeling of attracting jade, and the visual subject behind it is drawn with the front frame. There are flowers in the picture frame and flowers in the building. Whoever leads them out is usually the protagonist behind the scenes with a strong sense of story.

How to shoot plants? Practical shooting skills take you to shoot beautiful flowers.

1, spot metering and calendering darken the background flowers.

The biggest problem of taking pictures of flowers and plants is that the flowers are small and the background is chaotic, but the key to taking pictures is the photographer's shooting technology, finding beautiful eyes and unique aesthetics. Small flowers and grass can also use certain shooting techniques to shoot very beautiful results.

2, enlarge the close-up of the flower.

We can also get close to the flower we want to shoot, or lengthen the focal length of the lens, both of which are aimed at making the flower appear bigger in the lens, so as to shoot more details of the flower. This is also our common way to shoot flowers, and the effect is good.

3. Pay attention to composition and blank space

Pay special attention to the composition of flowers and grass. As we said just now, it is not recommended to shoot too many flowers and grass, and we should also pay attention to the branches when shooting leaves.

4. Shoot flowers and leaves against the light.

Finally, shoot flowers, grass or leaves against the light. The main purpose of backlight shooting is to show the texture of flowers and leaves, and at the same time increase the transparency of photos. The photos like the following are the types of photos worth trying to take just now. We can also use light irradiation to form photos with dark surrounding light and slightly bright light irradiation area, and the effect is gratifying.

How to shoot plants? Practical shooting skills bring you beautiful flowers, and Ivy Bian Xiao is here to share with you. If you have a strong interest in the later stage of film and television, I hope this article can help you If you want to know more about the methods and materials of camera clever and post-editing, you can click on other articles on this site to learn.