How to shoot Lotus

The subject of lotus is easy to learn but difficult to master, how to shoot a bright piece of work? We might as well draw lessons from the following taken advice:

1, the composition is balanced to avoid clutter background.

The lotus in the pool if breathtaking, flowers and leaves crowded. If you want to avoid clutter, highlighting the main body, can take a large aperture to narrow depth of field, the method of lotus leaf in the background into large color piece; In addition, falsified background commonly used method is the use of telephoto compression space. Photography is background subtraction, in addition to concise, but also pay attention to the equilibrium composition. Different colors, object and location has weight, besides scratchable latex, composition principle of the rule of thirds, the use of light and color will bring different feelings to the composition, excellent element stack together can give a person make sense of balance.

2, selected form beautiful lotus, lotus leaf half cover available ways of foil.

Face into the pond, you want to spend more time thinking and looking for flowers is very important, pay attention to choose beautiful body form. Can choose according to need fresh lotus flower, blooming, decline period, can observe more forms, it is the feeling of good subject lines and form will let you have imagination space. Prior notice, change the position and the composition point of view, panoramic view, middle distance and close-up to try, pious foil covering the way also is pretty good. In addition, the subject in addition to the lotus also can choose lotus leaf, lotus and residual charge and so on.

3, contrast of changes in temperature, with late or white balance lotus in different periods of colour atmosphere, make the picture has a story and drama.

Different hue and lightness color is one of the most obvious distinctions between objects on the vision. By late, white balance and shooting time point selection, the photographer can take the initiative to make contrast, creating the atmosphere of different periods of changes in temperature. Taken early in the morning and in the evening although lotus is warm color to move, but different times there is a difference of color temperature, and the evening warm tone more full-bodied, therefore, by looking at the light of the atmosphere, we can know more picture of the story. Contrast of changes in temperature can also let the subject and background to form bright contrast, the subject more prominent. Hot summer remaining we look at too many, but not common, in snow blue cold tone to join with the morning sun box, photo natural more able to bear or endure look.

4, pay attention to timing to make good use of backlight/the backlight

Day in People's Daily is photography, lotus air permeability is the best time of early in the morning at 6 am to 8 PM, if it should rain last night, the next day and clear, is the best time. Lotus have phototaxis, slowly began to close after ten o 'clock in the morning, so even if the evening is also suitable for light, but if not special topics (e.g., the remaining), is not very good choice, after all, in the afternoon after more warm light, the timing of the lotus flower in full bloom is not easy to master. The light of the different can cause different light and shadow. More obvious in the folds of lotus and the lotus leaf, shadows can be used to quickly distinguish between levels, highlight the bright main body; Backlight and the backlight is helpful to draw the outline of flower bone contour, naturally conceal clutter background, is a simple composition, rich level of good method.

5, vitality and reality combination make the picture hazy artistic conception.

Take not a flower, fog the fog, mix filming technique used in lotus, can give a person specious of artistic conception. The lotus in the compasses in if you get tired of figure, than try to devolve cakes, multiple exposures and folding mirror, shooting methods to blur the background, increase the gleaming mysterious temperament.

6, creative shooting.

Creative shooting have ps foundation of painting can be generic post-processing, such as watercolor, ink painting, prints, claborate-style painting, quietly elegant is right effect.