What are the shooting skills of lotus?

First of all, the choice of unconventional weather

Morning, afternoon, after rain, cloudy and rainy days are all good opportunities to shoot lotus flowers. Personally, I like to photograph the lotus flowers after the rain, because the lotus flowers look brighter after the rain. Like cloudy days, morning and afternoon, the light is very soft, and the photos of lotus flowers taken at this time are also very nice. It is not recommended to shoot when the light is too strong, because lotus flowers are not like in strong light? Angry? .

Second, the choice of shooting objects

Don't shoot the lotus, the lotus is only the main object. Besides lotus flowers, you can also shoot lotus leaves, flower buds, lotus swords, residual lotus leaves and so on. In addition, you can also shoot large areas of lotus and lotus leaves.

Third, the camera parameter settings

① photometry

There are generally three kinds of lotus photography: big scene, middle scene and close-up, among which close-up is the most. If you are not sure what to use for metering, you can use automatic metering directly. Shooting lotus lanterns will not be too complicated, and the requirements for photometry are not high.

When you shoot contiguous lotus flowers, that is, big scenes, then you can use average metering; When you shoot the lotus, that is, close-up, then you can directly measure the lotus by spot metering or center focusing metering.

② Use a large aperture.

Using a large aperture to blur the background, thus effectively highlighting the lotus, this is the most common way to shoot the lotus. Using a large aperture to blur the background when shooting lotus flowers can create a hazy green feeling and make the contrast between the background and the main body more obvious.

Besides blurring the background, you can also blur the foreground or the background before and after; You can try different blur effects and feel the level change and effect change brought by the aperture.

Fourth, the composition is balanced to avoid background confusion.

When the lotus is in full bloom, lotus leaves and flowers, awnings and poles will be inserted in it, which is crowded. Everyone needs to pay attention to composition and try to avoid messy backgrounds.

There are two common ways to take photos of lotus flowers with clean background and prominent subject: one is to choose a clean and concise background when composing; The second is to use a large aperture or telephoto to compress the space, thus blurring the background and achieving the purpose of highlighting the subject.