What is the fourth course of Xia He shooting?

The fourth practical course of shooting lotus flowers in summer

Fourth, the preparation of shooting equipment

"If you want to do a good job, you must sharpen your tools first." Prepare the necessary photographic equipment and auxiliary tools, so that you won't be stretched when shooting lotus flowers.

Photographic equipment:

Camera. Divided into traditional cameras and digital cameras, both cameras have their own advantages. The advantages of traditional cameras are mainly reflected in the use of reversal films. When about three or five confidants talk about beer and put the reverse film into a picture with a width of more than 1 m with a slide projector, the immersive shock and colorful enjoyment can only be realized by movie lovers who have seen slides. It is best to use Fuji RVP 100F or RDP III to shoot lotus films, because they are fine in grain and bright in color.

The advantage of digital camera is that you can judge the result immediately, and you can start again if you are not satisfied. Moreover, the requirements for the main body are not as high as those of the reverse film. Naturally growing lotus flowers are often difficult to achieve perfection, and it is inevitable that there will be such small defects, especially lotus leaves often have spots, creases, breakage or insect bites of different colors for various reasons, and these small defects are easy to repair in the later stage.

Lens: Although the shape of the lotus is large, for various reasons, the lotus near the shore can't meet the requirements of shooting, so a telephoto lens is essential. A better choice is the 70-200 2.8 lens, and the zoom lens is more flexible and convenient in composition and framing. It is more advantageous to blur the back with a professional large aperture zoom lens (f2.8). When shooting lotus near the main body or potted lotus, we should try to use the standard lens of 50mm or the macro lens of 105mm, because they have the advantages of high definition, short close-range shooting distance, strong spatial perspective, horizontal, prone and flexible upward angle change. When the Lotus is far away, 100-400 zoom lens, even 500mm and 1000mm Russian catadioptric lens, will perform their respective duties. If you want to reproduce the vast tranquility of the lotus pond, wide-angle lens and ultra-wide-angle lens are the first choice!

Photographic equipment such as tripods, pay-offs, flashlights, polarizers, various color filters and reflectors should also be prepared. Especially the tripod, because shooting lotus requires high definition, when shooting with telephoto lens or slow door, it is easy to make the picture "blurred" because of vibration, so the tripod is necessary, and the cable release is a perfect match with the tripod, which can further reduce the vibration.

Auxiliary tools:

Auxiliary tools mainly include sprayer, telescopic fishing rod and background cloth. Sprayers can make artificial dew or artificial rainfall, make lotus leaves or petals moist, increase expressive force, and make them more vital and realistic. I have introduced the telescopic fishing rod cleaning screen before, but remember not to damage the lotus and lotus leaves. The background cloth is the background when shooting potted lotus flowers.