When do plum blossoms bloom in Meihuashan, Nanjing?

Plum viewing is always an elegant thing. Now, winter has come, and plum blossoms are quietly blooming. Meihua Mountain in Nanjing Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum is a very unique place to enjoy plum blossoms. Let's take a look at when the plum blossoms in Meihua Mountain of Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum bloom and what are their characteristics.

Meihua Mountain in Nanjing Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum

As the city flower of Nanjing, the first place to enjoy plum blossoms is naturally Nanjing, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties. The first plum viewing resort in Nanjing is Meihua Mountain in Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, which is known as "the best plum mountain in the world".

Plum blossoms are planted all over the mountain, hence the name. Among them, the most precious plum blossom is called "don't be charming at night", with rose-red flowers and bowl-shaped petals, which is the treasure of Meihua Mountain.

Guanmeixuan at the top of Meihua Mountain, built in 1947, is a rectangular pavilion named after Sun Yat-sen's descendants. When plum blossoms are in full bloom, they are layered on top of each other, and the clouds are steaming and hazy, and they are all over the mountains and plains, which is spectacular.

0 10 to 10 10. Every year when plum blossoms are in full bloom, the Nanjing Municipal Government will hold the Nanjing International Plum Blossom Festival in Meihuashan, which has lasted for 20 years. It usually lasts from mid-February to the end of March, bringing us a plum blossom feast.

When does Meihua Mountain in Nanjing Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum open?

How to shoot plum blossoms?

Parameters Two key parameters are set here, one is aperture size and the other is exposure compensation.

Aperture setting

The most direct and effective way to shoot flowers is to shoot with a large aperture. First, it can blur the background and avoid the interference of the background to the subject, thus effectively highlighting the subject. Second, you can get a very dreamy effect, and the whole picture looks very beautiful.

However, there are two points to pay attention to when using a large aperture. One is the relationship between foreground and background. Don't confuse the foreground with the background. Second, flowers, because the depth of field is easy to be inaccurate, we must focus well.

Exposure compensation setting

If you take flowers in a snow scene, you should pay attention to exposure compensation. Because the brightness of the snow scene is very high, the flower photos taken without adjusting the exposure compensation are gray. Only by increasing exposure compensation will the photos be transparent. This is the principle of "white plus black minus" that I told you before.

No exposure compensation is gray.

Only the exposed photos are transparent.

In fact, flower composition is not difficult, and there is not much to talk about. If you are not a master photographer and don't have enough control over the picture, then I suggest you "simplify". Just try to keep it simple, shoot a flower, shoot a flower or something. And generally don't shoot all of them.

There are too many elements in the picture, which is too messy and unsightly.

Choose a few branches and simplify them, which will look much better.

In fact, most photos of flowers are composed in this way, taking close-ups and parts, because flowers are small in size. If you don't take partial photos or close-ups, the subject will not stand out and the picture will look messy.

Parameter setting

Let's talk briefly about shooting skills, because this thing really has no shooting routine. There are only a few common routines, so it's good to know.

Deep meditation

Plum blossoms bloom in the snow, which has the integrity of not competing with flowers, so it is very important to make plum blossoms into artistic conception. There are three ways to capture the artistic conception of plum blossom. One is based on ancient buildings, such as temples, ancient towns and stone lions. If there are ancient buildings in the place where plum blossoms are photographed, make good use of them. Ancient buildings as the background can make plum blossom very Zen.

With Zen elements

The second is to change the background to a dark background, and the combination of plum blossom and dark background will look very Zen. As for how to take a photo with a dark background, I won't say it here. Just read my previous article.

Dark background

Third, with the help of snow, plum blossoms bloom in the snow, and nature and snow are the best match. Plum blossoms in full bloom in the snow, if not shown too much, will give people a feeling of arrogance and not competing with the world.

Plum blossom fragrance comes from the cold.

Learn to travel light.

The light in winter is very soft, and the soft light shines on the thin plum petals, which will form a beautiful shore.

Summary: the shooting of plum blossom is a general idea, and the specific operation needs to be pondered when shooting. Plum blossom is a rare shooting subject in winter, so we should make good use of it.