15 skills let your flower photography shine

1. The advice of the equipment

Lens selection: Photographing flowers actually regardless of using wide Angle, distance, or telephoto can also, because all sorts of lens also can produce different canvas prints effect, but if you have the following lenses and accessories is better: telephoto lens: like 70-200 mm, 100-400 - mm lens and so on, is used to eliminate clutter background and easy composition; Macro lens: flower close-up shooting will use, it is suggested that the focal length is 100 mm; Close-up ring or close-up tube: if you don't have a macro lens or long, also can buy a close-up ring or close-up cylinder, and then set in your other cameras can be closer to the shortest distance, let you to enlarge the flower. If you are outdoors, flash and the tripod is not a must, of course you can also use them to create. Necessary you can also bring a reflector to fill light.

The choice of camera:

Camera is not too big relations, even as mobile phones or small DC can take beautiful photos, but of course DSLR can let you have a better control.

2. To control your depth of field

We may be able to enlarge the flowers during production, please be careful attention to your depth of field; the depth of field is too shallow makes clear a small part of the flower and the scope of the other will fall outside of the depth of field guide to blur. Remember large aperture is the factors will lead to a shallow depth of field, so when you find a flower only in the middle part is clear; please keep a little bit small aperture.

3. be careful the breeze!

Especially in outdoor filming, in addition to our own stability, also must be careful mobile breeze make flower, lead to blurred pictures. Keep an eye on your shutter speed is too slow, if you can, use shutter priority or manual mode, to ensure that the shutter remain above 1/100-1/250 s, please raise the ISO, whenever they are needed. If also must be aware of when holding a telephoto lens "safe shutter", lest appear hand shake. But you also might as well try to slow down the shutter, let flower moving gently in the wind, you will find out the canvas prints photos will become very dream!

4. Beware of white and yellow flowers affect photometric guide to underexposed

If you are using aperture or shutter priority precedent semi-automatic mode, please pay attention to when you take white flowers, camera metering opportunity misjudgment, lead to the shortage of exposure, you should according to the formula to revise EV: "in the light to light (add), in the dark, dark" (minus), so you want to compensate for underexposure + EV.

5. Red flower loss details carefully

Be careful not to overly expose during the filming of a red flower to flower loss details, don't be overly increase the saturation.

6. Custom white balance, avoid to affect the color of the flower

When you in the morning and sunset when the light color change is big, we can choose whether to choose the white balance to modify the color of the flower, if you don't custom white balance, likely it will be taken at sunset lost warm color. In addition, through the custom white balance can fully restore the color of the flower. Learning: white balance technique - color orientation for photos of the important influence

7. Use CPL polarizer removing reflection

When the light is enough, the flowers may be reflective, make the photo contrast is not enough, and then can have a try with CPL polarizer reflective to remove the flowers and leaves, improve the contrast and saturation.

8. Use soft light, side light and backlight, avoid shooting at noon

The light is very important for photographing flowers, best cloud in the day, actually form a natural light box, or just sunrise or almost sunset, when the light is downy, the beautiful flowers pictures from very easily. When the sun at noon on the top of the head, or the sunlight is very fierce, we should avoid in these time. After the sunrise and sunset shadow into the side light, when the flowers with dark can produce dramatic effect; and backlight, toward the sun is the cameras, can put the flower, leaf texture clear, and is also a kind of common method.

9. in the level of the flowers

When Pahoa please lower your height, at the levels of flowers, so more can enter the world of flowers; Sometimes more stick in the ground up, it is like put in flowers, take the perspective of special effects.

10. Flower close-up shooting and small insects

Don't just shoot the whole flower! Try using macro or telephoto lens, a small part of the footage, such as flower, flower petals, etc; Or in the common insects such as bees, butterflies, also can have the effect of the ornament.

11. Let the flowers more outstanding

Don't be greedy to shoot a lot of flowers (of course, sometimes you also can), it is best to find the most beautiful in the flowers, the most characteristic of the two, the use of long and large aperture, such background blur due to the shallow depth of field, let the protagonist flowers more prominent in the photo, avoid affected by background clutter. Different flowers can use different methods of composition, such as the diagonal composition.

Golden technique is simple and easy to use; the effect is very good also, for Pahoa will use composition method.

12. Choose the high contrast background

Although we use a shallow depth of field can remove the clutter background, but we can also be careful attention to the color of the background, trying to find a background is of obvious contrast with flowers (such as red flowers on the green background), so that flowers can be more outstanding!

13. Use a variety of Pahoa composition method

In addition to the most basic of golden, filling, diagonal, s-shaped composition, we can also use "framework diagram" to shoot. Shooting method is very simple, to find out first to the goal of the flowers, then using the previous stems, leaves, etc as a "framework", taken in the gap, such not only can bring some mystique, also can make the reader more focus on the flowers.

14. Take special photos - double exposure

Using the "double exposure" function inside the camera, the same flower shot several times, can be transform focal length, shape, or out-of-focus painstakingly, also can bring interesting photos, anyway try more!!!!

15. Abstract effect

The use of telephoto or macro lens, focus only on a small part of flowers and populate the canvas prints, with just the right amount of light (e.g., side light, backlight), often can issue the abstract meaning of pictures, flowers photo album for you add more artistic. Shoot a small number of flowers can make abstract effect!