Flower photography must know 10 skills

In the spring and summer blooming season, we often have the opportunity to see beautiful flowers. Be sure to know 10 flower photography skills this time. Let's have a look.

1. Suggested flower picking equipment

In fact, wide angle, medium distance and telephoto can all be used to shoot flowers, because various lenses can also shoot different effects, but it would be better if there are the following lenses and accessories:

Telephoto lens: such as 70-200mm, 100-400mm, etc. , used to eliminate messy background and facilitate composition;

Macro lens: it will be used when shooting close-ups of flowers, and the recommended focal length is100 mm;

Close-up ring or tube: If you don't have a macro lens or a telephoto lens, you can also buy a close-up ring or tube and put it on your other lens to shorten the shortest focusing distance, so that you can enlarge the flowers.

If shooting outdoors, flash and tripod are not really needed, but they can also be used to create. If necessary, you can bring a reflector to fill the light.

2. Control your depth of field.

We may enlarge the flowers when shooting. Please pay close attention to your depth of field. If the depth of field is too shallow, a small part of the flower will be clear, while other parts will fall outside the depth of field, resulting in blurring. Remember that a large aperture will lead to the depth of the scene, so when you find that only the middle part of the flower is clear, please take a smaller aperture.

3. beware of the breeze!

Especially when shooting outdoors, in addition to its own stability, we should also be careful that the breeze blows the flowers, resulting in blurred photos. Pay attention to your shutter speed. If possible, use shutter priority or manual mode to ensure that the shutter is maintained above1100s–1/250s. If necessary, please upgrade ISO. If you hold a telephoto lens, you must also pay attention to the "safety shutter" to avoid hand shock.

4. Note that white flowers and yellow flowers will affect the photometric control of underexposure.

If you use semi-automatic modes such as aperture priority or shutter priority, please note that when shooting white flowers, the camera's metering may be misjudged, resulting in underexposure. At this time, you have to correct EV according to the formula: "Light will increase when it meets light, and it will decrease when it meets darkness", so you have to +EV to compensate for underexposure.

5. Be careful about the details of safflower loss

When shooting red flowers, be careful not to overexpose the flowers and lose details, and don't excessively increase the saturation.

6. Set your own white balance to avoid affecting the color of flowers.

When you shoot when the light color changes greatly in the morning and sunset, we can choose whether to choose white balance to correct the color of flowers. If you don't set your own white balance, the flowers taken at sunset may lose their warm colors. In addition, by setting the white balance by yourself, the color of flowers can be completely restored. Learning: white balance skills-the important influence of color orientation on photos

7. use CPL polarizer to eliminate reflection

When the light is sufficient, flowers may reflect light, which makes the contrast of photos insufficient. At this time, you can try to add a CPL polarizer to remove the reflection of flowers and leaves and improve the contrast and saturation.

8. Make good use of soft light, side light and backlight to avoid shooting at noon.

Light is very important for photographing flowers. It is best to have clouds that day to form a natural soft light box, or to take pictures after sunrise or near sunset. When the light is soft, it is easy to take beautiful flowers. Avoid shooting at noon when the sun is overhead, or when the sun is strong.

At sunrise and sunset, it will be reflected as sidelight, when flowers and darkness can produce dramatic effects; Backlight, that is, the camera shooting at the sun, can clearly show flowers, leaves and other textures, which is another common shooting method.

9. shoot at flower level

When shooting flowers, please lower your height and shoot at the level of flowers, so that you can enter the world of flowers more; Sometimes it sticks to the ground and shoots upward, which makes people look like they are in a flower and shoots a special perspective effect.

10. Take close-ups of flowers and insects.

Don't just shoot the whole flower! Try to shoot a small part of a flower, such as stamens and petals, with a macro or telephoto lens. Or adding common insects such as bees and butterflies will also have a decorative effect.