Dasong photography

Aperture: f/8, shutter:1125s, sensitivity: ISO 100.

Shooting flowers in rainy days is a very useful skill. Because not only the soft light will make the colors brighter, but also the flowers washed by rain will look cleaner. If you add the residual rain on the petals, the effect will be perfect.

1. Cloudy light

When you decide to go out early in the morning, only to find that the weather is gloomy, you will often feel very disappointed. Cloudy days are recognized as "bad weather". But if you put down your camera when you see a cloudy day, you are wrong. In fact, cloudy days are good for photography.

First of all, cloudy days are the safest weather. Because the light is very uniform and soft, there is no obvious light and shadow distribution on the scenery and people, which greatly reduces the contrast. There is no need to make a difficult choice between light and shadow, and the exposure difficulty is greatly reduced.

Because the illumination of the scene is uniform, the task of photometry can be handed over to the camera on cloudy days. If the setting is basically kept at "central average metering", an ideal exposure can be guaranteed, and the colors in the picture will be more gorgeous and saturated. This kind of exposure can be called "big relief" exposure. Because you can just consider the composition and leave the exposure to the camera.

2. Rainy days

Rainy days are the biggest "bad weather". It has brought us many difficulties, such as: the camera is wet, it is inconvenient to wear a raincoat, the road is muddy, and the camera is prone to fog. Even if you have advanced rain protection equipment and a complete rain cover, the changeable weather conditions in rainy days will still make it difficult for you to shoot.

First of all, cloudy and rainy days will reduce the intensity of sunlight by about half compared with the same time. You must use a larger aperture or higher sensitivity to ensure a high enough shutter speed.

Secondly, if you are used to manual exposure shooting, you should pay special attention to the change of light brightness in rainy days, especially in heavy rain. The light condition may drop by 2 levels in half an hour, so you should always measure the light to avoid exposure errors.

The color of rainy days

The charm of rainy days may be at your muddy feet. Have you ever tried to squat down in the drizzle and look at the flowers on the roadside? You will find that they will appear brighter than usual at this time. This is not only because the rain washed away the dust on the flowers, but also because the rain reduced the floating dust in the air and reduced the influence of the air on the color.

In addition, due to the obvious contrast between sunny days, if you want to keep the dark part, you have to sacrifice the color of the bright part, and paying attention to the bright part will lose the saturation of the dark part. However, in rainy days, thicker clouds make the light darker and more uniform. There is no need to make a choice in exposure. Generally, the average photometric color can be well displayed.

On rainy days, the colors of nature are thick and light, so we can take color films and ingest more gorgeous colors such as red, yellow and green, so as to get really beautiful colors like washed ones.

Soft light effect

Except for the rainstorm with dark clouds covering the sun, the lighting effects during daytime rainfall is basically similar to that on cloudy days, with the light intensity slightly lower by one or two levels, softer light and lower contrast. It's just that rainy days are relatively darker and softer, and the portrait photos taken at this time are also soft and delicate. Not only that, as we just mentioned, when it rains, the scenery is clearer and the colors are brighter, so the portraits taken on rainy days are often soft and fresh. Therefore, if there is a sudden light rain when shooting portraits, you can let the model hold colorful umbrellas and shoot several unique rain scenes among the flowers.

"rain silk"

Rain itself is a beautiful scenery. No matter with natural scenery or artificial landscape, once it is combined with life, rain will become an important aesthetic element in the picture.