Shooting skills of eight big flowers

The shooting skills of the eight macro flowers are introduced as follows:

Tip 1: camera image settings

Before taking macro photos of flowers, several preparations should be made for camera setting:

1) image size is set to the maximum, which is convenient for secondary composition and cropping in the later stage to obtain the most obvious macro picture.

2) Choose the combination of RAW and JPEG in image quality, which can not only record the original data of photos for post-processing, but also obtain straight photos.

3) Optimize and calibrate the photos to make them brighter, thus making the JPEG photos more colorful.

Tip 2: Select the focus manually and find the focal plane.

In most daily shooting, we can focus first, then lock the focus and then re-compose, but there is obvious cosine error in this focusing shooting method, especially when shooting macro subjects such as flowers and insects at close range, which often leads to the ambiguity of the position we most expect to be clear.

Therefore, when taking macro shots of flowers, we should first take pictures and make a composition, and then manually select the position of the focus to shoot. For example, some classic composition methods (trisection, golden section, focal line method, etc.) are used first. ) Move the focus to the right position and take photos directly.

Tip 3: Find the best shooting time.

According to the different seasons and geographical locations, the daily light intensity is also different. Generally speaking, the best shooting time is before 9 am and after 4 pm. At this time, the light intensity is moderate, so don't use too much force. The petals can show rich layering and fresh texture. Among them, early morning is the best, because in the short time of sunrise, there are both sunshine and dew, which will make the flowers more delicate and rare.

Tip 4: Single Point and Single Focus

Macro photography requires high focusing accuracy. If continuous autofocus is used, the focusing accuracy may not be enough and the subject may not be clear enough. Usually, in order to improve the focusing accuracy, the macro shooting of flower theme should be set to single focus+single focus.

Tip 5: focus manually to improve the magnification.

Sometimes the flowers are too small to shoot at a closer distance, and then the camera can't focus automatically, which is caused by the distance exceeding the minimum focusing distance. For example, Nikon's AF-S VR 105mm lens has a recent focus distance of 775px. If the distance between the lens and the subject is less than this distance, the camera can't focus automatically. At this point, if you change to manual focusing, you can get closer to the object, further improve the magnification and take a clearer macro picture!

Tip 6: Choose the metering point reasonably.

When single-point focusing is selected, the focus point is the metering point. Reasonable selection of metering point can ensure accurate exposure. If the flowers are in direct sunlight, the prison will spot-check the highlights of the flowers. Although this will make the dark part slightly underexposed, it can be repaired by adjusting the RAW format later, with little loss of details.

If spot metering is carried out in the dark, details may be lost in the bright because of highlight overflow, which is difficult to recover later. Accurate exposure and late fine-tuning can better reflect the delicate and layered feeling of petals.

Tip 7: Use fewer maximum and minimum apertures.

Many photographers like to pursue large aperture and small depth of field to blur the background, so they often adjust the aperture to the maximum. However, when taking macro photos of flowers, due to close-up, the depth of field is too small because of the large aperture, which makes only a small number of flowers clear. For example, for a macro lens with a size of 100mm, if you want to show the stamens clearly, you should appropriately narrow the aperture according to the shooting distance. Generally, the unimportant parts can be blurred around F5.6, and will not be over-blurred.

Tip 8: The faster the better.

When using aperture priority mode to take macro photos, try to choose a windless environment with good light conditions to ensure the clarity and sharpness of the photos. Because at macro, even a little shaking of flowers will be infinitely magnified, so the shutter speed must be as fast as possible. Because there is almost no windless outdoor shooting, we can only make sure to shoot in the breeze as much as possible. If the light is insufficient, ISO should be improved to ensure the shutter speed.

In addition, the camera itself should be kept stable, and a tripod should be used if possible. If hand-held shooting is needed, the concept of "safe shutter" is involved here-that is, the shutter speed reaches the reciprocal of the focal length to keep the hand-held shooting clear. For example, when shooting with a focal length of 100mm, the shutter speed should be at least1100s, and the speed is higher for some large and heavy lenses.