Shoot Chrysanthemum painting

1. learn to appreciate chrysanthemum

To learn how to take a good picture of chrysanthemums, canvas prints one must first know about chrysanthemum culture, learn about chrysanthemums and their growth habits, cultivate aesthetic interest and know how to appreciate them. Chrysanthemum is a famous traditional flower in China. People love its comely verve, more love it ling frost in full bloom, and the west wind does not fall on a proud. If you want to make a good chrysanthemum painting, you need to personalize it.

Chrysanthemum, the first to see the type of flower diameter size divided into large chrysanthemum and star; The second to see the petals, there are mainly laurel class, tube class, online canvas prints flat class, spoon class; Third, to see the flower shape, mainly lotus, rosette, scroll, peony, tube disc, dance ring, pine needles; The 4th see design and color, general cent is yellow, white, violet, pink, red, tea, green, ink, miscellaneous 9 color department, each color department has the change of brightness and concentration again. Carefully observe the mechanism and structural beauty of every petal, single flower and group of flowers.

2. choose good equipment

A lot of people look at the flower shoot, it must be a professional DSLR and macro or long focus to shoot. In fact, not so, from household cameras to professional cameras can take good work, split canvas prints the most important thing is the creator's own ideas.

DSLR camera body is configured according to personal economic ability, the entry-level DSLR is enough to shoot chrysanthemums, the lens is recommended to choose long focus or macro, such as the manufacturers of 70-200mm is the most commonly used. Nikon VR Micro 105mm f2.8g macro lens, Canon EF 100mm f/ 2.8l IS USM macro lens, tenglong SP AF90mm f/ 2.8di MACRO1:1 macro lens are all good fluttering tools. For me, the macro lens used most often in shooting chrysanthemums is a good choice for both picture quality and applicability.

3. Discover unique beauty

Observe carefully before shooting to find attractive spots for chrysanthemums. Do a distant view, two close look, three taste, four shooting, so our work is successful half. It's not enough to choose beauty at a glance, it's more important to look beyond what people can see, to explore the hidden beauty and make it your subject.

4. Balanced and reasonable composition

Once we have chosen our subjects, we have to think about composition. Most of the compositions follow the golden section rule, which divides the whole picture into square characters and places the points of interest on an intersection. Of course, there are different personal preferences and different approaches to composition. There are more than a dozen ways to subdivide a composition, but only one principle needs to be maintained: keep the balance and reasonable response of elements in the picture.

Pat chrysanthemum most avoid "greedy", leading to the main body is not prominent, no visual center. In most cases, the composition "avoid chaos to seek simplicity", otherwise will fall into the primary and secondary unknown, picture chaos dilemma. Secondly, appropriate white space is needed for the picture (especially for the flower works). Although white space is not a real object, it is also an indispensable part of the picture. The role of blank space in the picture can help the author to express his feelings and make the reader have a space for thinking and imagination.

In short, there are two basic principles of composition. The first one is the rule of subtraction, which is often said that the accompanying body is always subtracted from the non-essential body of the subject. The accompanying body should not be too dominant in position, definition, color and brightness. The second is "addition principle", when there is no sense of beauty and artistic conception, we should actively seek to add elements to the picture.

At the beginning of the shooting of chrysanthemums, friends are advised to start with a simple, first shot alone, single, skilled after adding other elements.

5. Pay attention to beautiful details and colors

The wonderful details, subtle changes in color and texture of chrysanthemums can be seen through macro photography, presenting a microscopic world that is hard to see with ordinary lenses.

Macro photography is one of the ways to explore the ingenious construction of chrysanthemum. However, the depth of field in macro photography is very small, and the choice of focus and the accuracy of focus are particularly important.

(1) Focusing: in macro photography, automatic focusing mode is often difficult to focus accurately, such as not focusing, running, so manual focusing is more accurate.

(2) Control of depth of field: shoot on the tripod with a minimum aperture.

6. Make the picture more vivid

To make the work more energetic, we can add beautiful elements besides chrysanthemums, such as dew in the morning, bees lingering in the chrysanthemums, butterflies or mantises in predation, etc. These are excellent elements for us to express chrysanthemums and improve the level of our works.

We can shoot mums by hand spraying dewdrops or imitating rain. We can also put bees or butterflies into the beautiful picture of chrysanthemum; we can even use the later stage to transfer insects into the chrysanthemum painting. Flying insects can make the painting full of vitality and make the chrysanthemum move in the stillness (insects lying on the flowers sometimes make the work lack of vitality).

7. Use light and shadow

Light and shadow are the essence of photography. Light should be soft rather than hard, try to avoid direct light source with high light ratio. Direct light irradiation: the flowers receive light evenly, bright color, but plain texture; Backlight exposure: the flowers are clearly defined and the main body is relatively dark. It is the key to control the light ratio and the brightness level of the flowers.

Side light irradiation: flowers have strong three-dimensional sense and rich texture;

Top light irradiation: in most cases, the contrast of flowers is too strong. Try to avoid photographing flowers under direct sunlight at noon and light source with high intensity.

8. Arrangement of foreground and background

(1) Prospect

Foreground and background are the key components of a work, which play an important role in the decoration and prominence of the subject, and increase the sense of space and prayer in the photo. Therefore, in photographic composition, you need to learn how to use foreground and background. Using the blurring effect of large aperture blurring foreground to shoot beautiful flowers is a common method at present.

(2) Background

In the application of flower photography background, it is generally required that the background is simple and can set off the theme. The background can be natural flowers, blue sky, grass, etc., or artificial background. For example, with black or white or light background paper, cloth, KT board as the background, to get the desired tone, can also use a large aperture, choose other color chrysanthemum as the background, virtual contrast, highlight the main body.

9. Appropriate shooting Angle

Shooting Angle is very important for the expression of the chrysanthemum shape; generally speaking, the Angle is no more than the flat, upside down and back. Because of the nature of the chrysanthemum's growth, most flat pats can only see the side of the flower, while the inverted pats can only see the bottom of the flower, making it difficult to show the beauty of the flower shape.

10. concise color collocation

The color selection of flowers themselves: it is best to choose the flowers with bright colors and good layers for shooting; the relationship between the main color and the background color also directly affects the final shooting effect:

(1) The main color is the same as the background color. Generally, a large aperture is used to highlight the main color

(2) The main color is different from the background color. The background color should be as single as possible to highlight the main body;

Most of the time, it is better not to have more than 3-4 colors in the picture when shooting flower works. As few colors as possible will make the picture cleaner and simpler.

11, into the poetry

In order to shoot poetic and artistic works of high quality, the photographer needs to improve his own aesthetic and cultural heritage. It can be done by drawing on traditional Chinese paintings and then through later stages, or through special photography techniques such as multiple exposures, slow door shooting, and synchronization of the front/back curtain of the flash, etc. The photographer's idea is the key to determine the grade of the work.

Finally, I would like to tell you that the law of shooting chrysanthemums is also applicable to other flowers. As long as you take pictures with your heart, large canvas keep trying and summarize your experience, you will surely get ideal and beautiful flower photography works.