How to Construct Flower Photography

Brief introduction: The treatment of background is an important factor to determine the quality of flower photography. Background plays a role of contrast and contrast in flower photography composition, and it is particularly important to take color photos. Let's talk about some things about flower photography composition.

Use natural conditions to choose the background and use local materials.

Natural scenery, such as sky, ground, grassland, lake, forest, etc. , you can choose as the background. For example, if you take a picture with lotus as the theme, the background can be varied, and the background of the later lens can be the sky. Upward shot can be made of water reflection as the background, and flat shot or oblique shot can be made of lotus leaf as the background. If you push the lotus far to the middle scene and use lotus leaves, lakes and mountains as the background, the result will be different.

Manual layout background

Use colored paper or colored cloth to set off the flowers as the background. The purity and brightness of the background color should not be too high. Generally speaking, the color should not be too fresh or too light, and the relationship between the color phase of the background color and the color phase of the main flower is better with the contrast color and the similar contrast color. The background color is generally dark, sometimes subject to the needs of the effect, but it can also be treated with light tone and high profile, but it should contain more gray, otherwise the background color will be too dazzling, which will destroy the main composition and the whole picture.

The use of light

The sunshine changes greatly in a day, which directly affects the angle of flower illumination and shooting effect. From the light analysis, within two hours after sunrise, the light is ideal and the modeling effect is good. It is best to shoot flowers in natural light. In the morning, because of the physiological function of flowers, they absorbed nutrients all night, and their colors were particularly bright and delicate. The shooting effect is very good, with clear colors, distinct layers, clear tones and moderate contrast.

General lighting angles are divided into five types, namely front light, side light, backlight, top light and scattered light.

Using front light shooting, the light distribution in the picture is large, and the light receiving surface of the flower is uniform, but the disadvantage is that the flower lacks three-dimensional sense and layering, and the color tone is dull. If you take a black-and-white photo, the effect is even worse, because the picture effect of black-and-white photos is expressed by the brightness of tones (that is, different levels of black, white and gray).

It is the most ideal and commonly used to shoot flowers with side light (front side light or back side light). This kind of lighting has a good effect on flower modeling, with strong three-dimensional sense, distinct layers, moderate shadows and contrast, and harmonious and moderate contrast between color lightness and saturation.

When you shoot with top light, the light is projected on the top of the flower, and the front side receives less light, which leads to high contrast, lack of layering, poor color reproduction effect of the flower, high color temperature and easy blue photos, so this light is rarely used.

Using backlight photography, the light illuminates the object from the back, which can clearly outline the flowers and has a good modeling effect. If the petal texture is thin, it will be transparent or translucent, showing the texture, hierarchy and texture of the petal more delicately. When using this light source, we should pay special attention to the fact that the front of the flower must be full of light and set off with a darker background, so as to show the image of the flower more prominently.

Scattered light is also an ideal light source. It uses scattered light to shoot, which is not limited by the directionality of light source, with uniform light receiving surface, soft color tone and moderate contrast. If you choose to shoot the scattered light after the rain, the flowers will look clearer and more attractive.

When shooting flowers with a digital camera, it is best to set the flash function to? Forced not to flash? Mode, and then use the live light, choose the right shooting angle to shoot.