Skills of shaking lotus flowers

The skills of shaking lotus flowers are as follows:

Jitter shooting is called "Jitter" for short. That is, shake the camera with a slow door during long exposure. During the day, deliberately shaking the camera during a long exposure will produce an impressionist feeling, with soft edges and dynamic lines. At night, camera shake can turn bright light into abstract stripes and shoot mottled shapes and wavy lines. The purpose of using slow shutter and panning is to create a blurred shape.

We set the camera to shutter priority, and then choose the shutter speed in the range of about half a second to about a quarter of a second (or even longer). First, release the shutter according to the normal situation, and use a slow shutter speed and some deliberate jitter to obtain the blur effect. Soft effects can be achieved by using a faster shutter speed and some slight camera movements.

Don't just be satisfied with "shaking", you can try to rotate or zigzag or irregularly move. In order to get different images, some foreign photographers even throw their cameras into the air during exposure, so that they can create works with random motion blur (of course, this is not recommended). The longer the shutter time, the more intense the camera motion and the stronger the background motion.

What should I pay attention to when shooting lotus flowers?

1. The beauty of lotus lies in the coordination of flowers and leaves.

The core of the flower shoot is "red flowers lined with green leaves" When there are big lotus flowers in the pool, if you look closely, you will find that their shapes are not the same. Some flowers will stand tall on the green leaves, while others will be hidden in the green leaves. Because they can't be photographed at close range in the water, they can't be adjusted artificially. Therefore, we should choose the pictures to be captured and adjust the shooting angle through our own understanding of the beauty of form.

2. Moderate exposure

Generally speaking, there are big scenes, middle scenes, close-ups and so on. When shooting lotus flowers, the accuracy of exposure is very important. If you shoot a big scene, you can automatically expose it according to the average metering of the camera. Generally, there is no problem, because the brightness of red or pink lotus flowers is similar to that of leaves. It is not a big problem to follow the camera instructions when shooting the middle scene, and relatively accurate exposure can be obtained according to the brightness exposure of leaves; If you take a close-up shot with flowers as the main body, you can directly measure the flowers with the help of spot metering or central key metering. According to the brightness of the main body, the exposure effect will be better.

Step 3 Use a large aperture

When shooting close-ups or small and medium-sized scenes of lotus leaves, the lotus leaves are separated from the depth of field by blurring the large aperture, creating a hazy green color, making the background simple and making the audience focus on the lotus leaves. Blurring can be achieved by blurring the foreground, background and background. After trying these ambiguities, the works will show different levels and changes.

4. Selection of equipment

Shooting lotus flowers is mostly in the wild, so it is best to use a light and flexible 135 SLR camera; Because lotus photography requires high definition, tripod is an indispensable auxiliary tool for photography, and additional reflectors are also essential, such as polarizers, which can play an important role in the expression of color, hierarchy and texture.