Flower photography skills

Lead: When taking flowers, you can match the scenery according to the quantity, type and color, and take photos by using the characteristics of a good lens; How to interpret scenes such as flowers, grasslands or wilderness, and painted faces on rock walls, and think about composition and lighting from all angles, all need to learn some experiences and skills.

Flower border shooting steps

1. Know the flowering season.

Whether it is high mountain or flat land, people at home and abroad want to take pictures of the flowers, first of all, they must understand the blooming season of local flowers. As far as alpine rhododendrons are concerned, they usually bloom in May and June. Because the flower season is generally not long, only by mastering more accurate information about the flower situation can we shoot and take pictures as much as possible and shoot the best works.

2. Observe the light angle

Sunlight can take photos with uniform exposure and bright colors, but the tension of light and shadow is weak, which is not conducive to shooting local close-ups; The contrast will be greater when backlit, which can better show the permeability and visual tension of petals, glamorous, attractive, three-dimensional and lively. Diffuse light (such as when the sun is blocked by clouds or fog) has a poor three-dimensional effect, but it can shoot works with a softer feeling.

3. Set the aperture and metering

When shooting flowers and grasslands, it is recommended to use the aperture priority mode of wide-angle lens to shoot large scenes. Usually, you can use a small aperture (above F8) to get a larger depth of field and make the details clearer.

Usually, the brightness is relatively uniform in the light or the top light during the day, and weighing can be used for metering. If you shoot or measure the backlight, flowers and grasslands have a three-dimensional sense, but you should pay attention to the contrast problem that the sky is easily overexposed.

4. Use polarizer in time

Using a polarizer can improve the color saturation of the blue sky and suppress the reflected light of flowers and the sky, thus emphasizing the color of flowers more.

Service time of polarizer

Polarizers are not everything. Generally speaking, it is better to use a polarizer on sunny days than on cloudy days. If it is sunny, adjust the lens direction to 90 with the sun position? The position of the polarizer can be rotated to maximize the effect and suppress the reflection of flowers and the sky.

Writing skills

When shooting a flower scene, you can use a wide-angle lens to shoot a composition method with a broad prospect and a narrow prospect (near the big and far from the small), so that the foreground and the foreground are related correspondingly, showing the sense of extension of visual perspective.

However, when shooting the undulating mountain shape on the vast grassland, the wide-angle lens often makes the field of vision too small, which needs to be adjusted according to the shooting position and the distance between the theme elements. The area of the composition is also one of the factors to be considered. It is suggested to try the lens characteristics of each focal segment more, and there will be more amazing performance.

Wide-angle lens is close to the emphasized theme.

This picture was shot from top to bottom with a wide-angle lens, with rhododendrons in Yushan as the foreground, accounting for about two-thirds of the picture; The background is an extended valley with clouds and sunshine between the valleys, which adds a lot of color to this work and gives the viewer a feeling of commanding and enjoying flowers.

Nearly small and far-reaching components

The principle of composition lies in the visual balance of the picture, and sometimes it is not easy to shoot some foreground with a wide-angle lens. For example, the beautiful scenery appears on the edge of the windward cliff, and it may slide down the valley with a little carelessness, causing regret!

At this time, we can change the composition method, reduce the composition area of the foreground (slightly away from the foreground), and take the big collapse of the background as the theme, which becomes a composition method that is near small and far away.

Capture the beautiful color temperature

At the end of May, Dashuidong Mountain was in full bloom when the red Mao Dujuan was in full bloom. The color temperature of dawn is so soft! Find a suitable prospect quickly, and then take the prairie and distant mountain scenery as the middle scene. At this time, the faint clouds in the sky can best show the clarity of the morning. Therefore, it is necessary to seize the short morning moment and quickly shoot this rare morning beauty.

Ignore composition and add characters

Even if there is no large flower sea, you can record the most persistent photographer instead; It is suggested that companions can concentrate on shooting flowers from top to bottom and bring them into the distant sea of clouds and mountains. But although this puts the characters on the golden point of TIC-tac-toe composition, there is no sense of depth and openness. If you move the character to the right, the shooting angle will be wider, the direction of the character will be right, and people and the scene will be more harmonious, with a sense of depth and openness.

a sea of flowers

In order to shoot a large-scale layered flower sea, I chose a lens with a medium focal length of 70mm, and used its slightly compressed space to set off the complexity of the flower sea. Before shooting, I moved my feet to find the best position to highlight the beauty of its lines, and finally chose this horizontal perspective and height. When shooting, the distant mountains and the dawn are included to emphasize the beautiful sea of flowers in the farm at the foot of the mountain; Each composition element has a bright color, which makes the picture more layered and three-dimensional.

Matters needing attention in landscape photography

? Lighting principle

When shooting a flower scene, it is usually shot in light, side light or low contrast, so it is easier to achieve accurate exposure when metering. If you encounter an environment with diffuse light such as fog, you can wait for the moment when the sun shines on the green space, and the picture will be more stereoscopic.

? Decorate with characters

You can bring people in when you take pictures of flowers. Sometimes, it is precisely because of the introduction of plane pictures that the finishing touch is achieved, which makes the whole work full of sense of existence and vitality.

? Pay attention to their own safety

When shooting flowers and grasslands on high mountains, because the shooting point is mostly on the edge of ridges or cliffs, you must ensure your own safety without any protection before you can concentrate on shooting and framing.