How to shoot rape flowers?

Spring Festival is the season when rape flowers are in full bloom. How to shoot rape flowers when going out to play? Let's take a look at the shooting skills of rape flowers in the Spring Festival.

1. Grasp the best opportunity to shoot rape flowers.

The flowering period of rape is very long, usually about one or two months. When it first blooms, light yellow and light green are intertwined, which is very fresh; When it is in full bloom, it is golden yellow and very brilliant; Usually, you can consult local flowers and grasp the shooting opportunity. Morning and afternoon are the better shooting time of the day, when the light is softer and the colors are brighter. Or the drizzle has stopped, and there are water drops hanging on the rape flowers, and the color is the brightest and brightest. Taking pictures is not only taking pictures of scenery, but also taking pictures of people in the sea.

2. Grasp the big scene from a wide angle

The most exciting thing is to see a large ocean of rape flowers. At this time, you can take a big scene into the picture with a wide-angle lens. At this time, you need a telephoto lens or a large aperture lens, which is usually between F 3.5 and F 5.6. In the face of a large golden yellow, the photos taken by the photos are easy to lack a sense of hierarchy. At this time, the composition of wide-angle photography is particularly important. In addition to the traditional three-point composition, you can try different composition techniques. Attention should be paid to the change of morphology in composition, so that rape flowers are dense and neat and avoid monotony.

The background can be a large rape flower, or some characteristic buildings and people are blurred as the background, but be careful not to overlap the colors to distinguish the foreground subject from the background. You can also find some foil as the background, such as distinctive buildings and flowing bridges, which will make the photos more humanistic.

Composition, try to make the picture form rich and diverse, combined with various characteristic backgrounds, showing a harmonious, wonderful and layered effect. According to the conventional shooting method, the rape flowers are shot clearly and the background is blurred. On the other hand, the background is clear and the rape flowers are blurred, which makes the picture embellished with gold and has different feelings.

Aperture shutter combination skills: large scene with small aperture, F8 ~ F 16, wide angle between 24-35mm; Close-up with large aperture, between f 3.5 and f 5.6, telephoto is preferred. If the light is insufficient, try to use a tripod. Clear focus is a very important basic skill.

Shooting skills: use small aperture and slow door. If the light is not enough and there is a little wind, some flowers will be blurred and some flowers will be clear. If there is still some fog in the distance, it will be even colder.

3. Close-up of macro lens

The flower shape of rape is not beautiful, which is not suitable for close-up. However, it is also very effective if there are bees and the like as a foil. If you want to take a macro lens, use a macro lens and tripod if necessary. If the lens is close to the subject, the aperture should be above F8 to avoid too shallow depth of field.

When shooting, you can choose sunny weather to get faster shutter speed and improve the success rate of shooting. It should be mentioned that it is best to use manual focusing to shoot bees, which is convenient to capture the moment when bees fly, and it should be dexterous.

4. Photometric skills

Rape flowers are brightly colored, so it is more appropriate to use spot measurement or center focusing. It is best to follow the principle of adding white and subtracting black, and add two exposures to take accurate photos. Attention should be paid to avoid large light contrast.

5. Low sensitivity is better

The performance of rapeseed pays more attention to the clarity of the image, otherwise it is difficult to reflect its details, so try to choose low sensitivity when shooting to make the details of rapeseed more delicate. In order to avoid noise, it is best not to use the sensitivity above ISO250 for portable digital cameras, and to use the sensitivity below ISO400 for digital SLR.

6. Adjust the exposure compensation according to the environment

The brightness of rape flower itself is close to neutral gray, which is more suitable for digital camera to display with neutral gray density of 18%. Exposure compensation is generally not required. If you want a brighter effect, you can also make exposure compensation of 0.3 file according to the actual situation. The exposure during shooting should be considered together with the natural and cultural scenery such as landscape architecture and Woods related to rape flowers, and the exposure compensation should be made according to the comprehensive needs or the needs of the subject. If there are many high-brightness objects such as distant mountains in the picture, the exposure should be increased, and if there are dark Woods, the exposure should be reduced.

7. Make good use of the descriptive power of light

If you want to emphasize the color of rape flowers and show the saturation of yellow best, you can use smooth light. In the state of sunlight, not only the color of flowers is good, but also the color of the sky is particularly blue, and the visual effect formed by complementary colors is very strong. Side lighting is more suitable for showing the three-dimensional layering of rape flowers, such as shooting large-area scenes and showing the hierarchical changes and three-dimensional sense of rape fields in different positions such as hillsides. , side lighting should be used. Side lighting is not only convenient to show rape flowers, but also beneficial to show the three-dimensional sense of distant mountains and buildings. Backlight is more suitable for close-up or middle shot. When the exposure is accurate, the texture of rape flowers and leaves can be better displayed. If you shoot in diffuse light, you'd better choose a simple background as a contrast, otherwise the tiny flowers will be easily submerged in the background.

8. Reflect different environmental characteristics

Generally, you go somewhere to shoot rape flowers, not just those yellow flowers, but mainly to show the regional scenery of the area. Therefore, photographers are most interested in Guangxi, Yunnan, southern Anhui and Wuyuan, Jiangxi, because these places have distinctive characteristics.

For example, Luoping rape flower has a special local flavor after combining with the local karst landform, and the exquisite mountain head is like an island floating in the sea of rape flowers; The rape terraces in Jiangling, Wuyuan, climbed the winding mountain and reached the sky, full of rhythm; Rape flowers in southern Anhui are often mixed with Huizhou folk houses; The rape fields in the west have a broader sense of sky and clouds. Using these contents when shooting helps to increase the connotation of the picture and increase the visibility. In addition, when shooting in water towns, we should also make full use of rich colors such as rivers and waters. Like Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hunan, Fujian and other places, the rivers are pure, mostly emerald green. The collocation of green and yellow rape flowers can not only obtain better contrast and color difference, but also coordinate colors. As a foil, the river sets off the rape flowers in the foreground through the changes of different shades.

The above is the shooting method of rape flowers. I hope it helps you.