What are the skills to shoot flowers?

Now is the best season to shoot flowers in a year. All kinds of flowers are dazzling. Whether by the stream in the forest or by the sidewalk, flowers are competing to show their beauty, bringing a rich visual feast to our eyes. Now pick up your macro lens and put all the beauty of the flowers into the camera.

However, to capture the most charming side of flowers, it is not just as simple as pointing the lens at them and pressing the shutter. Flower photography is an area where you need to inject painting and poetry. You need to fully reflect the aesthetic taste of the picture, not just make a simple record of plant taxonomy. There are many photographic methods and techniques to describe the beauty of flowers, each of which has its own advantages and can bring its own unique image style. The two most common are wide-angle shooting or macro shooting.

Good film analysis:

What's so good about this photo?

1. The composition of this photo is simple and powerful, and the flowers are located at the intersection of the three-point line of the whole picture.

2. Use a 300 mm telephoto lens to effectively separate this flower from the surrounding environment.

The shallow depth of field ensures that only this flower is in focus, and all other details that may cause interference are blurred.

4. Make good use of soft light to show delicate parts, while reducing contrast and highlights.

Which shooting method should be adopted depends largely on the background or surrounding environment, and whether you shoot a single flower or multiple flowers. If there is a sea of flowers in front of you, the best choice is to use a wide-angle lens to describe this magnificent picture. In order to get the best effect, it is best to get closer and let the flowers in the foreground fill the lower and middle parts of the picture to fully express the scene.

The sky is also a very important element. The bright blue sky (as shown below) can be in sharp contrast with yellow or red flowers. If there are clouds in the sky, the effect will be better. On the contrary, if the sky is pale and has no details, then you should leave only a small piece of sky at the top of the picture, or even don't shoot the sky at all, because it will not help the presentation of the picture.

One way to shoot a single flower is to focus on the shape, outline and even details of each petal with a macro lens. In this case, it is best to use a soft light source, because it can avoid stiff shadows, bright spots and reflections. So cloudy days are a good time to take such photos. Soft light can also show details such as delicate petals, as well as subtle colors and textures.

Come closer:

Shooting with a macro lens requires patience, especially in composition-even a little change in the position of the camera will have a great impact on the composition of the whole picture. In addition, the control of depth of field also needs to be very cautious. In order to get a large depth of field, you should use a smaller aperture to keep as much as possible in focus. On the contrary, if you shoot with a large aperture, you can get a fantastic abstract picture, which makes people feel all kinds of beauty.

Wide angle and macro have their own positions in the field of flower photography, but you may also want to try to use a short focal length or even a telephoto lens to make a flower or a small cluster stand out from the background. The shallow depth of field brought by telephoto lens can make the picture focus on the subject and blur the background (and foreground). This is also a powerful way to shoot flowers, creating simple composition and charming color block combination.

Main skills:

1. Selected

You don't have to stay long before the first flower you see. The flowers here are often gaunt by the sidewalks where people come and go. You might as well keep looking for better ones. Study the common flower varieties in your area in advance and find out their flowering period.

Start as soon as possible

Try to shoot in the morning, when the wind is light and the light is soft. Determine the shooting method you plan to use and bring the appropriate lens-it can be wide angle, macro or telephoto, depending on the subject you plan to shoot.

Step 3: Stable support

Hand-held camera to find the best composition, determine the position, set up a tripod. Choose an appropriate aperture-choose f/ 16 for maximum depth of field, and f/4 or f/5.6 for shallow depth of field. Set a low ISO value, use the cable to release and turn on the pre-lift function of the reflector to ensure the clarity of the photo under the low-speed shutter.

Practical skills:

1. First come first.

Shooting at sunrise will not make the flowers sway and make the picture unreal when the wind is relatively small or even there is no wind. Early morning flowers often have dew, which can enrich the three-dimensional sense of the picture.

Soft light

Try to avoid direct overhead light, which will lead to excessive contrast, thus making photos easy to overexpose. If necessary, you can soften too bright light. For example, you can shoot in your own shadow, or you can use a filled flash or reflector to brighten the shadow.

3. The highest quality

Try to use the lowest ISO setting to ensure the best image quality and accuracy. But this often means that the shutter speed needs to be reduced, so remember to use a tripod to avoid the influence of machine vibration.

Transform multiple angles

When you find a flower suitable for modeling, you should fully tap its expressive force. Try your best to be creative and try many things. Flowers can't run, you can patiently observe and shoot from all angles, and change different lenses to create different effects.

Different Composition and Emphasis of Creative Fuzzy Experiment

How you describe your subject depends largely on the lens, aperture, focus position, light and composition you choose, any of which will have a great impact on the final effect of the picture.

Shallow depth of field can effectively separate and highlight a specific element, while placing the other elements in Jiao Wai. In macro photography, this effect will be very dramatic, and any slight change in the focus position will greatly change the picture effect.

You can put the camera close to a bunch of flowers, pass through them and focus on a flower in the distance. This will create a halo-like blur around the subject, and only the subject is clear.