Low-altitude shooting skills of outdoor big scenes

"Flower" is the representative of eternal beauty. There are many poems, songs, idioms and myths about flowers. It brings us pleasure and is the embodiment of beauty.

Of course, "flowers" also play an extremely important role in landscape photography and are the most common subject for photographers. From the common method of shooting lotus and chrysanthemum with telephoto or macro lens to shooting wild flowers with outdoor scenery.

Oregon seems to have entered the world of flowers in spring and summer. Cherry blossoms, roses, Shandong, sunflowers, tulips and many other kinds of flowers are in bloom one after another. There are many flower-shooting scenes only an hour's drive from my home.

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Conduct a field investigation

First of all, we need to investigate the shooting location on the spot, which is what everyone says. This is very important. Even if you have looked up enough information on the Internet, it is still recommended to arrive at the shooting site at least 2 hours in advance for topographic survey and aircraft location selection.

After arriving at the shooting location, you can predict the sunrise and sunset or the location of the Milky Way through your own experience or photography APP, and then find a suitable seat.

There is a saying in landscape photography that "you are not good enough because you are not close enough". Of course, nothing else is discussed here. Today, I'm just writing about my flower shooting experience.

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Shooting skill

With flowers as the foreground, accounting for two-thirds of the composition, with beautiful red clouds, the photos taken are very beautiful.

So how was this picture taken in the early stage?

The first choice of 1 needs to be as close to the flower as possible (that is, the shortest focal length of your lens).

Move the lens angle repeatedly to find the best composition.

3 Wait for the best shooting opportunity.

Shooting wild flowers in outdoor scenes is different from ordinary scenery, so it is impossible to shoot them by slow door method. Because the wind will blow the flowers around, we need to ensure a high enough shutter speed. When the light is insufficient at sunrise and sunset, you can even sacrifice a certain image quality and increase the ISO sensitivity to 1600 to obtain a safe shutter.

In landscape photography, it is very important to balance the exposure of the sky and the landscape. So I took the above picture with NiSi three-speed reverse gradient lens.

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Depth of field synthesis

As we all know, when the closest focal length of the lens is close to the flowers, even the smallest aperture can't capture the picture of Quan Jingshen. So we need to use the method of depth of field synthesis to shoot.

As shown in the above six pictures, red is the focus of each picture. After the shooting, we used the software to synthesize the depth of field, and got this Quan Jingshen's work. If there is no tripod, give up.

When shooting the above pictures, in order to balance the exposure of the sky and the scenery, I used NiSi three-speed gradient mirror to perfectly control the exposure balance of the whole work.

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You can't shoot the stars near the flowers at night. When shooting, everyone needs to adapt to local conditions and can't shoot completely according to my method. The most difficult breakthrough in artistic photography is not technology, but creativity.

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