What photographic equipment do you need for flower photography?

Lead: Flower theme is the most easy photography category to express the prosperous and romantic situation. Therefore, whether it is simple flower/tree shooting, flower scenery shooting, or images of people and scenery are quite popular with photographers. This paper will introduce lens preparation and equipment precautions for users of SLR cameras before departure.

What photographic equipment do you need for flower photography? Wide angle lens (required);

The most common way to shoot flowers and trees is to take at least two mirrors and have a wide field of vision to show the tension of spectacular flowers and trees or the charm of the scenery. A long mirror compresses a scene or close-up.

Wide-angle lens, if you are an APS system, can be around118mm; if you are a Quan Huafu system, it is recommended to be between 14-28mm.

When shooting, you can mix the wide-angle picture with the distant view and close-range picture. For example, wide-angle themes account for about 30-50%, telephoto and close-up themes account for about 70-50%, so as to obtain the diversity of the picture.

In addition, there are many different shooting methods for wide angle. For example, shooting flowers at a low angle, approaching flowers to express tension, and linking people with scenery to express artistic conception.

▼ This is a way to shoot cherry blossoms with scenery. It can not only shoot flowers, but also bring out the light and shadow of the scene. It uses a lens of 17mm, which is equivalent to 25mm of a traditional camera.

It was taken in Kyoto. The way of philosophy (shooting without polarizer)

▼ Shoot a whole row of cherry trees by the river, using a lens of 17mm, which is equivalent to 25mm of a traditional camera.

It was taken outside Kyoto. Nanzenji.

Telephoto zoom lens (required):

So-called? The scenery in the long mirror has a unique charm? Whether it is spring flowers or autumn leaves, long glasses are necessary. Sometimes 200mm is not enough. If the focal length can reach 300mm, it will be an ideal choice.

A telephoto lens can often show a soft lens, compress the scene, bring the scene, and the shooting technique is also changeable. In addition, the telephoto segment is not necessarily just a secret love for a flower, but can be used to represent the local or regular flower sea segment of the flower tree, and can take a big picture. Therefore, it is recommended to shoot flowers and trees, and long shots must be taken. We can also find that in the final photos we will choose, the flowers and trees photographed with long mirrors often reach about 50-70%.

Recommended lenses are 70-200mm, 70-300mm, 100-400mm, etc.

▼ This is a cherry blossom shot with Topina ATX 535. The focal length used is 125mm, which is equivalent to 187mm of a traditional camera.

It was taken in Taian. Old station (when shooting, use the backlight angle.

It makes the flowers feel transparent, because it is dusk when shooting, so the color is a little yellow. )

▼ Also use 125mm focal length, which is equivalent to 187mm of a traditional camera.

It was taken in Taian. The old station (because it changed its angle a little, it brought more sunsets and the atmosphere at dusk was stronger. )

Macro lens (optional):

Compared with the long lens, the macro lens can take larger close-ups, thus showing different faces of flowers. When shooting with a macro lens, you often need to use a tripod as an aid, or choose a lens with optical anti-shake function, because you want to narrow the aperture to get a deeper depth of field.

▼ This is a flower shot with a Leica 45mm F2.8 macro OIS lens (equivalent to 90mm of a traditional camera), and it also adopts a semi-backlight environment, so the petals have the feeling of light transmission.

▼ Shoot the lotus, even the bugs on the lotus can be seen. This is the advantage of the macro lens.

▼ Beat the stamens. Similarly, this is also the advantage of macro lens.

▼ Because it can be close to the subject, the depth of field is very, very shallow.

Fixed focus lens (required):

If the subject is a portrait, especially a girl's portrait, the portrait mirror is still a very important lens when shooting a landscape portrait with flowers and trees as the scene, especially a portrait lens with a large aperture.

The most commonly used focal lengths of fixed-focus lenses are 35mm, 85mm, 105mm, 135mm. At night, in the challenging environment of low light, you may need to use a short focal length, such as 24mm, 35mm or 50mm, while shooting during the day, you can use 85mm, 105mm or135 mm.

▼ As shown in the figure below, because the shooting of night sakura+portrait is a challenging environment, a short focal length of 30mm F 1.4 is used for shooting (equivalent to 45mm of a traditional camera).

Shooting location: Shirakawa, Kyoto (this picture is supplemented by a small number of flashlights to obtain the exposure balance between the scene and the portrait).

▼ The fixed-focus lens with large aperture is also very easy to use when shooting flowers and scenery. The picture below shows the windowsill flower (equivalent to 40mm of a traditional camera) shot by 20mm F 1.7 of M4/3 system. Is it rational to cooperate with outdoor light and shadow?

Location: Little Ryukyu

Shoot flowers with standard focal length

The standard focal length of 50mm can also be used to shoot flowers, especially the whole regular flower sea. Using 50mm focal length to express the local rhythm and structure in the flower sea, whether it is top-down or parallel shooting, you can try.

▼ From top to bottom, shoot the whole chrysanthemum.

▼ parallel shooting, looking for a sense of regularity.

▼ Turn on the large aperture parallel shooting and emphasize a few flowers.

Comprehensive analysis of equipment preparation

If we observe the images taken by the above lenses with different focal lengths, we can find that the flowers taken by wide-angle, telescopic, macro and standard lenses have different personalities. Therefore, the preparation of equipment should also be considered in many aspects. First determine what feeling you want to shoot, what kind of image tonality you need, and then decide the shooting plan and equipment preparation.

In addition, the time spent shooting flowers is usually leisure and travel time. So, don't be greedy. Taking out all the lenses will definitely make your bag too heavy, and taking pictures of flowers will only make you feel tired. Generally speaking, taking two lenses can cover most of the needs.

Wide-angle and telescope are common configurations, and they are also the preparation methods of general photographers.

Wide-angle and macro-lens are the preparation methods that take both landscape and ecology into consideration.

Telescope and macro mirror are the preparation methods that focus on close-up, but sometimes telescope and macro will overlap with specific images, so you can think about whether to make a choice.

In addition, there are some accessories, such as CPL filter, which is a necessary choice if you want to show the blue sky and change the reflection of light. In the case of specific macro or night shooting, you need to prepare a tripod.

The shooting of flowers will not only lead us to appreciate different landscapes and observe the colorful colors of nature, but also make our life more colorful and vivid between shooting and walking. ? Color. Flower photo? Taste the real pleasure of life!