How does a novice photographer take beautiful and romantic cherry blossom photos?

Cherry blossoms are undoubtedly one of the most beautiful flowers in spring. Every year from March to April, cherry blossoms bloom all over China. In this article, we will share various cherry blossom photo shooting techniques to help you capture the most beautiful cherry blossoms.

1, macro lens shows details.

Cherry blossoms are smaller. If you want to take a close-up of it or its pistil, you should use a macro lens. Because the higher the magnification, the shallower the depth of field, so we have to set the focus to single-point autofocus or point autofocus to get more accurate results. Generally speaking, pay attention to the pistil. If the depth of field is still too shallow and the petals become blurred, we can use a smaller aperture, such as

F/8. As for the composition, it should be carefully composed so that the front pistil will not overlap with the back pistil. We can also try to shoot from above to capture the whole flower. Try to keep the background as clean as possible, leaving room. Weather and time will also have a great influence on your image. Flowers with dewdrops are absolutely stunning in the early morning or after rain. We can also try to take a macro shot of pistil to get a more unique effect.

(EOS 5D Mark II? EF 100mm f/2.8L macro is USM? f/5.6？ 1/320s？ International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

1000)

2, wide-angle lens take flowers

It is a common sight that many cherry trees line the road. When some flowers fall, it is definitely a spectacular sight. With the super wide-angle lens, we can capture the magnificent scene of cherry blossoms in full bloom from a broad perspective. If there is no super wide-angle lens, please use the wide-angle end of the standard lens. As for composition, we usually put cherry blossoms on both sides of the picture frame to supplement its beauty with objects reflecting local culture, such as trains, cars, buildings or people in the middle. We can also try to capture the lines of cherry trees from the top of the mountain. Using a smaller aperture (e.g.

F/8) to ensure sufficient depth of field. If we shoot with the blue sky as the background, please use the circular polarization filter to enhance the color saturation, rotate the filter and observe the color changes in the viewfinder, which can make the sky bluer and the flowers more colorful.

In addition to shooting cherry blossoms alone, we can also add different shades of colors to the photos to get more spectacular effects. EOS 550D？ EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 is USM.

f/8？ 1/400s？ ISO 200)

3. Separate the theme from the vague background.

Various focal lengths from standard to telephoto can be used to photograph the beautiful shape and morphology of cherry blossoms, covering 70-200mm or 70-300 mm.

The telephoto zoom lens is a good choice for many purposes. For more obvious defocusing effect or making the most beautiful flowers stand out, a large aperture fixed-focus lens, such as EF 50mm f/ 1.4 USM, should be used.

The extremely shallow depth of field brought by the large aperture can highlight the beauty of flowers. We can put the theme flowers on the left or right side of the frame according to the golden ratio, leaving a certain space to ensure a certain distance between your theme flowers and the background flowers. Using a large aperture lens to blur the background, you can take photos with obvious subject depth and pay attention to the direction of light. When shooting backlight objects, at least exposure compensation is added.

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When shooting close-ups of cherry blossoms, we can use the characteristics of large aperture to blur the background and highlight the main body. EOS 500D？ EF 50mm f/ 1.4 USM？ f/4.5？

1/200s？ ISO 200)

Step 4 shoot at night

In addition to shooting in the sun, cherry blossoms shot at night show different expressions, but they are more difficult to capture. First of all, pay attention to the brightly lit cherry blossoms. Since the light source is weaker than during the day, we should use higher ISO settings, such as

И o16000 or higher to maintain the clarity of photos, Lenses with large aperture and anti-shake function, such as EF 70-200mm f/2.8L, are II.

Compared with the zoom lens with variable aperture, USM can let more light in, thus making shooting easier. The large aperture can also turn the light source in the background into a beautiful scattering scene, creating a fantastic effect. In addition, we can also use a tripod to enhance stability. However, even if the camera is stable enough, the exposure time should not be too long, because when the cherry blossoms are swaying in the wind, we may eventually take blurred photos. The color of a photo mainly depends on the light source. For example, if the light source is purple, you will have a purple cherry blossom photo. For a more creative effect, we can use different white balance settings to deliberately change colors. On the contrary, to capture the primary colors of cherry blossoms, we can first take a piece of white paper in front of the cherry blossoms, and then adjust it to a custom white balance to capture the ideal color.

When you shoot cherry blossoms at night, you should pay attention to the light source besides the color. Using a large aperture telephoto lens, we can create beautiful scattered scenes in the background. EOS 6D？ EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS

USM？ f/2.8？ 1/ 125s？ ISO 1600)

5. Portrait elements

In addition to the ordinary way of taking pictures of cherry blossoms, we can also add elements of characters to the photos to tell a story. For example, the facial expressions of people who look at flowers will be a good modification. We can use telephoto lens to create a sense of compression in the composition, and choose the location with dense cherry blossoms as the background, so that the characters in the composition only account for a small part, because our goal is to take photos with stories by using the expressions or gestures of characters. Pay attention to the shutter speed when taking pictures with people. Because of the telephoto lens, people may walk around, so we should at least use a safe shutter speed to freeze this moment. For example, for

200 mm lens, the safety shutter speed will be 1/200 seconds or faster.

(EOS 5D Mark III? EF 70-200mm f/4L is USM? f/4.5？ 1/ 125s？ ISO 800)