How to shoot a beautiful lily with a SLR

It takes a lot of skill to shoot flowers well. In nature, after pollination, there will be a thin reflective film on the petals that can't be seen by the naked eye. But CMOS sensor and CCD sensor of digital camera can capture this kind of reflective film. In this way, the photo will be covered with a layer of gray, the color of the flowers is not bright enough, and the sharpness of the photo is not enough. Now there is a special picture filter (called Flora 6 1B by photomechanics) which can reduce the influence of pollination on photos, make the images clear and reduce the gray level.

1, do not shoot down.

In daily life, when you walk in the field and see wild flowers, or walk on the garden path in Shang Huashi, you will bend over and look at those flowers carefully. If we stand by and look down on the flowers in our daily way, the photos we take will be very ordinary. Why? If you want to take a photo with visual impact, you must take it from an angle that we rarely look at every day. In other words, don't shoot down, but squat down and choose an angle that is level with them. When you are squatting there, try to be lower than the flowers, and then shoot from a charming angle.

Step 2 shoot with a zoom lens

You can take good photos of flowers with a zoom lens for two reasons:

(1) You can often enlarge the flowers to almost fill the whole picture;

(2) The focal length of the zoom lens can be aimed at the flowers, not the background.

First choose the aperture priority mode (set the mode dial to A), and then use the minimum aperture value allowed by the camera (that is, if your lens is f/5.6, use f/5.6). Then focus on a flower or a dense cluster of flowers. When doing this, the background is blurred, so the picture has a strong visual impact.

3. Use a macro lens to focus at close range.

Are you surprised by the close-up photos of professional photographers (you can usually see bees passing on pollen)? Actually, they took it with a macro lens. The macro lens can reproduce the images of the subject and flowers at the ratio of 1: 1, which only the macro lens can do. The macro lens has a shallow depth of field. When you shoot a rose, the petals in front are very clear, and the petals in the back are naturally blurred.

4. When will you take the shot?

There are three ideal shooting times.

(1) cloudy and cloudy. After clouds cover the sun, the shadows are softer, and the bright colors of flowers will not be diluted by direct sunlight. So cloudy days are the favorite weather for flower photographers. In fact, there may only be another time that is more suitable for shooting than cloudy days. What is this?

(2) Shortly after the rain. For flower photography, this is a very magical moment. At this time, there are still clouds in the sky and rain beads on the flowers. If you have a macro lens, taking pictures with it will have amazing effects at this time. When you shoot with a macro lens, don't forget to take pictures of rain beads on leaves and stems, which can set off the color and delicacy of flowers.

(3) If shooting in sunny days, try to choose morning and dusk. In order to make full use of the light at this time, shoot with a long zoom lens, and you should stand in the background of flowers, so that you can shoot with non-background light.

5. Don't wait for rainy days-simulate rainy days.

Don't wait until it rains, just take a watering can full of water and spray it on the flowers. As long as you spray it with a watering can a few times, there will be very lovely water drops on the petals. Take a small watering can and put it in the camera bag (empty bottle, of course).

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Step 6 shoot flowers on a black background

Flower photography has a shooting method-shooting a single flower on a black background, and the photos taken are fascinating. Wear a black coat when you go out to shoot flowers. If you see the flowers you want to shoot, raise the back of the jacket behind them. If you shoot flowers indoors, buy some black velvet or velvet and put it behind the flowers as the background. You can support it with one thing. Leave a few feet between the flowers and the black background (so that the light will dim and the black background will look black) and you can start shooting.

Step 7 shoot on a white background

Another very popular flower photography method is shooting on a white background. Buy a roll of seamless white paper from the local camera equipment store (very cheap), but it is usually wider than you need. Unless you are shooting for a flower shop, you usually don't want to see a vase. So I will go to the office supplies store and buy two or three 2030-inch whiteboards (similar to bulletin boards, but thicker and harder). Usually I put a white board behind the flowers (in a vase), and then use another board to reflect the natural light (from the window with indirect light) to the white background, so that the photos will not look gloomy. Similarly, there is a gap of about 3 feet between the flowers and the background. In natural light, it is much easier to photograph flowers on a white background than to add a white background in Photoshop.

8. Ideal light source for indoor flower photography

Because the flower picture taken with soft natural light is better. When the soft sunlight outside the window is not direct but scattered, the photos taken are great. Therefore, in rooms, studios, offices and other places, we must find a window with no direct sunlight. Then put the flowers near the window and let them take photos sideways (if they are facing the light, the photos taken will have no three-dimensional effect). Now set up a tripod and shoot at the same height as the flowers (remember, don't shoot from above). Now you can shoot in beautiful soft light without spending a penny.

9. Where can I shoot beautiful flowers?

In order to take beautiful photos of flowers, you need to go to a flower shop to buy flowers (see, this is a simple question). You can choose any flowers you want (I like to take pictures of roses, calla lilies, lilies and daisies), and the flowers you buy must have good patterns (fresh). You can refuse any flowers with spots or bad patterns they give you, and you don't need them to pack them. It takes less than 100 RMB to photograph the blooming and amazing flowers (although sometimes it takes a day or so for the roses to bloom).

10, let the wind stop.

If you shoot flowers outdoors, you may meet the natural enemy of flower photography-the wind. The tripod is set up, the camera is aimed at the subject, and the focus is completed. We can only wait there until the wind slowly stops. Nothing is more depressing than this. It's even worse if you shoot with a macro lens, because even the slightest shaking will cause disaster (exaggerated, the photo will be blurred). You can try the previous method and block the wind with your body (in fact, this is very ineffective), but you can actually solve this problem with the camera itself. Select the shutter priority mode (used to control the shutter speed, and the camera adjusts other settings according to this speed to make the exposure moderate), and then increase the shutter speed to 1/250 seconds or faster. Generally speaking, this freezes wind-induced motion (unless it is a hurricane).

If the faster shutter speed still doesn't work, there is a second scheme that can be implemented, that is, turning the wind into the main body. By the way, if you can't beat it, then bow your head-with a slow shutter speed, so that you can see the flowers moving (press the shutter and you will see the trajectory of the flowers moving), and you will "see" the wind and have a different view. Try this "watching the wind" method, maybe you will love this shooting method.