How to shoot peony flowers well? How to write a composition? Light requirements? When is a good time to shoot?

1. Make a composition of peony flowers.

1. Break away from convention and find a novel angle. Choosing different angles is to observe the shape of peony carefully and find the most suitable "side" to express its beauty. When you find it from which angle, you should shoot it from which angle quickly so as not to change the light. You can choose to shoot peony: elevation, depression, front, back, left and right elevation composition. If we can find the angle that abnormal eyesight can see and show the beauty and appearance of one or several peony flowers, then it is easy to make new achievements. You can use "people without me" and "people with me" to take a novel picture of peony flowers.

2. When operating the screen and allocating the screen area, the subject should be highlighted. In other words, let peony flowers occupy a larger area and an important position in the picture, and enhance the clarity of peony flowers. As companion green leaves, they can't pretend to be masters.

3. Show the expression of peony and publicize the character of peony. While paying attention to the expression and modeling of peony, we must not destroy the flowers! Because the peony shrinks by seven inches, only the growing peony is the most beautiful. Make full use of its natural growth state, adopt anthropomorphic expression techniques, endow it with new spirituality, use what posture to express its emotions, use what posture to describe what words it wants to pour out, or publicize its spirit in what posture. Strive to make my peony works reflect my hopes, expectations and some ideas, and show the author's personal style. Let the pictures not only show the beauty of peony itself, but also express some themes of truth, goodness and beauty.

4. Selection and treatment of background. The selection and processing of background mainly refers to mastering several contrasts: such as contrast between light and shade, reality, color, size and so on. When shooting light peony flowers, you should choose a dark background, and vice versa; In addition, in order to highlight the main body, you can try to blur the background. The method is to shoot the flowers on this peony with the green leaves or other plants of another peony far away from this peony as the background and with a larger aperture; In addition, different colors of background paper (cloth) can be used, and different colors of background can be artificially added and changed.

2. the lamp used to shoot peony flowers.

It is best to use scattered light to shoot peony flowers, because the peony pictures taken under scattered light are soft and bright, and the light ratio is ideal (but it should be clear that scattered light is also directional). Other commonly used lights are front light and side light, so use backlight with caution, or you will lose the layering of flowers. When shooting, use the spot metering of the camera to aim at the main body of the photographed flower. At the same time, we should also understand that the illumination angle of light from different angles will change, so if we want to measure light at the shooting angle, we must re-measure light once we change the position, and the exposure must be determined by the metering value of peony itself, and the metering value of its background and background scenery can be ignored.

3. Problems that should be paid attention to when taking flowers. In different weather and different time periods, the posture of peony flowers is different. The flowering period of peony flowers from flowering to withering is about 7 days, which is advanced or postponed according to different weather conditions. Generally speaking, 9 or 10 am is the best time to shoot peony flowers; When the sun is strong and the wind is strong, pay attention to sunshade and windproof; It is best to use tripod, cable, reflector, polarizer and other photographic accessories when shooting; Set the aperture size and shutter speed according to the number of peony flowers photographed; You can also pay attention to the use of a variety of techniques and techniques, such as multiple exposures in the early stage, and it would be better if you could bring a photography assistant.