How to shoot creativity in water droplet photography?

You may often see such photos on the Internet. Water drops glistened on the petals. How are they taken? This involves the skills of macro photography (all cameras can be used, and even try to shoot with iPhone). I have some shooting experience, and I hope these skills of shooting water drops on petals will help you.

This is what a drop of water looks like on sunny and cloudy days:

This picture looks good, but you will find that photography may be nothing special.

First of all, let's recall the light characteristics of water droplet photography. If the main body is simplified to the greatest extent, then they are biconvex lenses, which will conduct and focus light through themselves, and the focal lengths of all water droplets are roughly the same. This means that the light passing through the water drop will focus on a point formed at a certain distance from the water drop, creating the illusion of bright spot glare:

1, light should not shine from above the water droplets. The light above the water droplets will focus on the sunlight below, that is, on the leaves of plants. Such water drops will not look beautiful in the photo.

2. Choosing the right distance from the flower will make it the most eye-catching and take high-quality photos, because a reasonable distance will accurately focus the angle shot through the lens on the camera lens.

The layout of the lights and the direction of the camera

In photography, it is necessary to place a light source on one side and a camera on the other. In other words, there is a flower between you and the sun. In this case, you can't see the sun in the lens, but it will be a colorful background, not the sun in the background. Look at this picture, everything will become clearer, and the green line represents the camera's angle of view.

In addition, you need to choose the distance from the camera to the object (flower)-if the distance is too far, the water droplets will not be so obvious; If the distance is too close, the depth of field may not be enough. If the distance between objects does not exceed 10- 12 cm, the distance to flowers is the best. If you have a macro lens with a focal length of 40-60mm, the result will be different-the background blur will become clearer. However, if a large aperture is used, the effect of water droplets is unlikely to be good, which will produce background glare.

Next, you need to pay attention to the required depth of field. When shooting petals with a lens, the aperture is f/ 1 1- 13. For wide-angle lenses (such as 40-60mm), the aperture can be larger because there are more choices. Specific parameters need to be practiced, and there is no unified design standard.

Finally, you need to cast light. You can wait until the sun comes out after the rain, but there are some simpler options:

1. When shooting on cloudy days instead of in the sun, you can use flashlight light. Flash will also help focus more accurately, instead of using flash, which can't help focus when it is behind the main body.

2. When shooting in sunny days, you can carry a spray bottle and a small bottle of water with you. When patting the water drops on the petals, spray some water on the petals.

In this photo, according to the above plan, spray water and shoot flowers.

This photo uses a flashlight, as shown above, Tokina 100 2.8 macro lens, Nikon d600, f 13 camera.

If you can splash water droplets on the background Shanghai well, you will get excellent background blur effect in the form of water droplets.