Flower photography skills The skill of photographing flowers.

Have you ever photographed flowers? Have you ever photographed flowers hidden between heaven and earth, between vegetation and rocks? They are exquisite, small and lovely. It is a wonderful thing to record them with a camera. Do you know how to shoot flowers? What are the techniques for taking flowers?

The choice of metering mode If you shoot flowers under the background of backlight or sky, the flowers themselves will be underexposed. In this case, you can use the reflector to fill the flowers, or you can use the spot metering mode of the camera to measure the light.

Because the metering range of spot metering mode is small, it only accounts for about 9% of the picture. So you can use the spot metering mode to measure light at the place you think is most suitable, especially in the environment with great contrast between light and dark.

If you want to keep the details of the highlight, you can measure the light against the highlight, then lock the exposure and re-compose the shot. If you are shooting in a relatively uniform light environment, you can use the central focus average metering and evaluation metering.

Choose a large aperture to avoid clutter in the background. One of the most common mistakes that many beginners make when shooting flowers is that the background is chaotic, the flowers are clustered together and the main body is not obvious. For example, in the photo below, the whole picture is messy, the background is not well chosen, and there are too many flowers.

Composition The composition of flowers is much simpler than that of landscapes and portraits. Although there are many kinds of flowers, the size and distribution of flowers vary widely, your composition can highlight the main body and make the picture full of beauty. Let's tell you a few commonly used patterns.

① Diagonal composition

This composition is suitable for photographing flowers on branches.

② Jiugongge composition

This is the most common composition method, highlighting the key points and leaving blank.

③ Central components

This composition method is often used when shooting macro flowers.

④ foreground composition

Because the distance between flowers is relatively close, some flowers can be used as the foreground.

The above composition techniques should be the most commonly used composition techniques for taking flowers, and there are many others. Here are some basic knowledge.

Shooting Chimonanthus praecox under special climatic conditions is a unique scenery before the arrival of spring. When the north wind is cold and the earth is frozen, wintersweet blooms in front of the crowd, making the earth fresh and elegant. Every year from the end of 165438+ 10 to March of the following year, the small and golden Chimonanthus praecox blooms one after another, emitting rich floral fragrance and quietly spreading the message of spring. In this season, there are often snowfalls and freezing weather, which is an excellent opportunity to shoot wintersweet.

Taken at Beijing Botanical Garden. After a rain and snow, wintersweet was frozen by snow and ice. Choosing side backlight and depicting frozen wintersweet with macro lens can make people feel the artistic conception of frozen wintersweet and better show the elegance of frozen wintersweet bones.

Off-season photography of flowers has a different charm. During the year, we are eager to catch up with the flower season. Many people will choose the season when flowers bloom. In fact, the "flower season" should cover all spring, summer, autumn and winter. In midsummer, the lovely lotus is always a charming melody, and the red flowers and green leaves are intoxicating, attracting people to raise their cameras and press the shutter. However, in late autumn and winter, some people pay attention to lotus flowers. As we all know, shooting lotus flowers in this season can get rid of the glitz and publicity in midsummer, show off the residual load of washed lead, and make people feel the true meaning of life.

165438+ 10 in Guangzhou, the residual load left by the branches in the pond almost lost all the pleasing colors. After the wind and frost, I am still proud and comfortable. Residual lotus contains the beauty of loneliness and confidence, which is far more delicious than a blooming lotus. Even if beauty fades from youth, the melody of life still stirs. When shooting, we should carefully choose the form of residual load, present it in the form of ink and wash, be calm and restrained, and a new round of life is quietly erupting.

Chasing golden scenery photography pays special attention to the prime time of early morning and dusk. The light in these two periods has extraordinary expressive force, and the photos taken are often the most beautiful. The same is true of taking flowers. In the morning and evening, the magical natural light will set the flowers and water with dazzling Phnom Penh, which magically presents unique texture and details. In prime time, everything is so beautiful.

Chaozhou in July. The withered lotus petals fluttered on the water, and the pink color was like a wandering lotus lamp. Naughty fish sometimes swim lightly with petals. Under the backlight of the morning glow, golden ripples rippled. Pay attention to the reflective effect of the water surface when shooting, and wait for the shooting opportunity in the light change. You can also use a polarizer to adjust the clarity of water reflection and lotus petal reflection to better suit your shooting intention.

Creating a dreamy scene with shallow or deep light spots can always give photos a dreamy atmosphere. They look so real, but they are so ethereal and dreamy floating in the air. When shooting, photographers are often willing to show this out-of-focus state and highlight the subject while rendering the atmosphere. Many photographers know that the "sweet circle" of catadioptric lenses has a unique facula effect.

The wonderful world in water drops. Photographers who like to shoot flowers know that the flowers after rain and those moistened by morning dew are more delicate and charming, and the water droplets are crystal clear under the irradiation of backlight and side backlight. When shooting flowers, bring a small watering can full of water and spray it on the flowers to make the picture more vivid. In fact, there are secret weapons that can make the picture more exquisite than a simple watering can.

In the early morning, the warm climate makes the leaves of flowers and plants covered with crystal dew, which is a good opportunity to shoot flowers with macro lens and close-up lens. Choose a bright dewdrop, then find a small flower to put on the background, and carefully observe the position of the flowers reflected in the dewdrop through the viewfinder, so that they can be perfectly reflected in the dewdrop, and you can get a particularly delicate picture. It should be noted that the depth of field is extremely shallow when shooting with macro lens and close-up circle, so it is best to choose dew on the same focal plane, and shoot by manual focusing with backlight and side backlight to better show the crystal clear texture.

Insects visiting flowers add aura to the picture. Flowers attract insects with their bright colors and sweet nectar. When insects stop on flowers suitable for shooting, they can often take high-quality photos. Clearly presents the details that are not easy to be detected by the naked eye, which makes the flower shooting full of vitality and vitality, and the moving nuances are fully exposed.

The temperature in the morning is still very low, and the insects covered with dew are almost motionless. They must wait until the sun rises completely to absorb enough heat, and then they can start their day's activities. At this point, you can get close to the shooting very easily. This work was shot with a 90 mm macro lens and close-up. In order to get the right depth of field, we need to find the right focal plane, use a small aperture like f/ 10~f/ 14, and shoot with a flash.

Showing the charm of the micro-world is the most attractive part of flowers, and expressing the beauty of flowers is also one of the important contents in flower photography. The telephoto lens and macro lens are very suitable for shooting stamens, fully showing the details of flowers.

Generally speaking, it is best to choose the morning when the flowers are blooming, when the flowers are more vibrant. With the external flash outside the machine to show exquisite details, you can get uniform light and soft colors. Pay attention to control the output of the flash, and use a soft mask to soften the light to avoid it being too stiff.

Multiple exposures show extraordinary artistic conception. In flower photography, multiple exposure is an important skill in order to show unique artistic conception. Multiple exposures can present the same subject many times in different ways on the same photo, or magically superimpose different scenes on the same photo. Nikon D90 and above, Canon EOS

5DMarkIII, EOS 1DX, EOS6D and other models all have multiple exposure functions.

If you shoot a single flower like a portrait in a clean background, you can find that the light shines from its upper right, exposing the surface of the petals, and only the central area of the background has a light, which is a clean background. In this case, it is the same operation as shooting a portrait.

If you look at it from another angle and try to take a flower reference like that, you will start to think about whether to take a flower bust, a small bust or the whole body.

And you can also shoot dead branches and flowers that have blossomed, or even shoot a small tip. When you shoot with a macro or microscope, some tiny details like skin can be photographed, which will feel like opening a new door to the world.

When shooting flowers, I will take two lenses, one of which is a wide-angle lens. In order to shoot the whole scene, the combination of environment and flowers is adopted to make flowers play a good role in the picture.

At this time, the works can also be appreciated as landscape films and tasted as flower works.