Introduction skills of flower shooting

Lead: Flowers often appear in macro photography, and people usually have a great chance to shoot them. Let's take a look at the introductory skills of flower photography.

(1) It is recommended to bring flower equipment.

Lens selection

In fact, wide angle, medium distance and telephoto can all be used to shoot flowers, because various lenses can also shoot different effects, but if you have the following lenses and accessories, remember to bring them!

Telephoto lens: such as 70-200mm, 100-400mm, etc. , used to eliminate messy background and facilitate composition;

Macro lens: it will be used when shooting close-ups of flowers, and the recommended focal length is100 mm;

Close-up ring or tube: If you don't have a macro lens or a telephoto lens, you can also buy a close-up ring or tube and put it on your other lens to shorten the shortest focusing distance, so that you can enlarge the flowers.

If shooting outdoors, flashlights and tripods are not really needed, but they can also be used for creation. If necessary, you can bring a reflector to fill the light.

A telephoto lens can not only avoid crowds, but also create a shallow depth of field.

Camera selection

The camera is not really important. Even a mobile phone or a small DC can take beautiful photos, but of course DSLR can give you better control.

Key points of camera setting

(2) Control your depth of field.

We may enlarge the flowers when shooting. Please pay close attention to your depth of field. Too shallow a depth of field will make a small number of flowers clear, and others will fall outside the depth of field, resulting in blurring. Remember that a large aperture will lead to the depth of the scene (another is the distance between the focal length and the background, see this), so if you find that only the middle part of the flower is clear, please shoot a smaller aperture.

Be careful not to have a shallow depth of field, or many parts of the flower will fall into the bamboo range with a shallow depth of field.

(3) Watch out for the breeze!

Especially when shooting outdoors, in addition to its own stability, we should also be careful that the breeze blows the flowers, resulting in blurred photos. Pay attention to your shutter speed. If possible, use shutter priority or manual mode to ensure that the shutter speed is kept above1100s-1/250s. If necessary, please upgrade ISO. If you hold a telephoto lens, you must also pay attention to the "safety shutter" to avoid hand shock.

But you might as well try to slow down the shutter and let the flowers move slightly in the wind, and you will find that the photos taken will become very dreamy!

(4) Note that white flowers and yellow flowers will affect the light guide, resulting in underexposure.

If you use semi-automatic modes such as aperture priority or shutter priority, please note that when shooting white flowers, the camera's metering may be misjudged, resulting in underexposure. At this time, you should correct EV according to the formula we have taught before: "Brighten in case of light, darken in case of darkness", so you should add EV to compensate for underexposure.

Be careful that white flowers will misjudge the camera and lead to underexposure. At this time, increase the exposure or +EV.

(5) Be careful about the details of safflower loss.

When shooting red flowers, be careful not to overexpose the flowers and lose details, and don't excessively increase the saturation.

(6) Set your own white balance to avoid affecting the color of flowers.

When you shoot when the light color changes greatly in the morning and sunset, we can choose whether to choose white balance to correct the color of flowers. If you don't set your own white balance, the flowers taken at sunset may lose their warm colors. In addition, by setting the white balance by yourself, the color of flowers can be completely restored. Learning: white balance skills-the important influence of color orientation on photos

(7) Use CPL polarizer to eliminate reflection.

When the light is sufficient, flowers may reflect light, which makes the contrast of photos insufficient. At this time, you can try to add a CPL polarizer to remove the reflection of flowers and leaves and improve the contrast and saturation.

Selection of light

(8) Make good use of soft light, side light and backlight to avoid shooting at noon.

Light is very important for taking flowers. It is best to have clouds that day to form a natural soft light box, or to take pictures after sunrise or near sunset. When the light is soft, it is easy to take beautiful flowers. Avoid shooting at noon when the sun is overhead, or when the sun is strong.

At sunrise and sunset, it will be reflected as sidelight, when flowers and darkness can produce dramatic effects; Backlight, that is, the camera shooting at the sun, can clearly show flowers, leaves and other textures, which is another common shooting method.