How to take beautiful macro photos of water droplets?

It takes a lot of patience to take macro photos of water droplets, and it is difficult to take images of water droplets in the way you want, but the camera provides many useful functions to help. Let's take a look at some techniques to capture the reflection of flowers in water droplets, which will help you to take an ideal photo of flowers with water droplets more easily. In order to catch water droplets and ensure clear shooting, set the camera to high.

ISO sensitivity, mounted on a tripod, using a slow shutter of 1/25 seconds.

(FL:28mm/ aperture priority automatic exposure (f/3.5, 1/25 seconds, EV 0)/ISO 640/ white balance: daylight)

Scene 1: Make water droplets look sharper.

When shooting at close range, you don't need to use a very large aperture to get good shooting results. The closer to the subject, the shallower the depth of field and the stronger the background shooting. However, if you shoot at the maximum aperture, the depth of field will become too shallow. Even if you pay attention to the reflection of flowers, the outline of water droplets will appear blurred, although flowers will be sharp. Here, the aperture priority AE mode is used, and the aperture is reduced to f/9 to obtain a greater depth of field, and the camera is adjusted until the edge of the water drop is clearly captured.

(FL:28mm/ aperture priority automatic exposure (f/9, 1/40s, EV -0.7)/ISO 500/ white balance: daylight)

In order to focus on two water droplets, it is necessary to place the lens at exactly the same position as the distance between the two water droplets. In macro photography, because the shooting distance is very close, the depth of field is naturally shallow: you don't need a very large aperture to create an obvious lens and realize a good separation between the subject and the background.

(FL:28mm/ aperture priority automatic exposure (f/7. 1, 1/6 seconds, EV 0)/ISO 400/ white balance: daylight)

The overall effect of this flower is not very good, so it took some time to compose the composition. Because we can't change the angle of petals, we tilt the camera after installing it on a tripod. Because we use a wide-angle macro lens, there is some extra space in the background, which can be easily filled with two flowers at the back.

Scene 2: Star awn is formed on multiple water drops.

When you focus on one, everything on the same plane will also become the focus. To put multiple water droplets in a clear focus, make sure they are at the same distance from the camera: arrange them in a straight line parallel to the lens, and once the water droplets become the focus, put the light source obliquely behind them.

(FL:28mm/ aperture priority automatic exposure (f/ 1 1, 1/25 seconds, EV +0.3)/ISO 400/ white balance: daylight)

The angle of light affects the color taken-find the color that best sets off the flowers, and then set the camera to f/ 1 1.

Equal narrow aperture, when the camera captures the light reflected by water droplets, stars will appear on the outline. Suggestion: Use white paper as a reflector to make the light on the main body uniform. When you want to capture multiple water droplets clearly, manual focusing will give you more control methods.