Floral Digital Photography Skills

Just as love and life are the eternal themes of literature, flowers are also the eternal themes of photography, because flowers are an important part of this beautiful world. Photography lovers will have different degrees of interest in flowers. Especially those who have digital cameras, they should take a closer look at floral photography, because the imaging principle of digital cameras is different from that of film cameras, only when shooting scenes and close-up, in order to achieve better results. Therefore, flowers should be the main subject of digital cameras.

　　Digital photography of flowers-four elements

What are the conditions and factors for a good floral image? I think at leastAttractive themes, perfect light, concise composition, and harmonious tones. These four elements exist independently and are inseparable from each other. They jointly support a pair of works. When shooting flowers, the key to success is to grasp and handle these four elements.

　　Digital photography of flowers-theme
Photography is often associated with famous mountains and rivers and tourism. It seems that there is no foreign country, and no famous mountains and rivers can produce good works. In fact, as Rodin said: "There is not a lack of beauty in life, but a lack of discovery. "This is especially true for those who love floral photography. As long as you carefully observe the flowers and plants around you, you will find that the endless theme is around you. Last year, our first snowfall started late at night. How can we show that this is the first snow? On the morning of the next day, I thought about Nikon 990. I carefully observe houses, branches, bridges, and streams. Suddenly I found several bright flowers hung with white snow, more charming and gorgeous, just like a girl with a wedding dress. Take care of others. Take the battery in one breath.

When shooting flowers, we need to highlight the most fascinating places through technical means such as light, composition, tone comparison, and depth of field control. The minimum requirement is to clear the most exciting part. The most touching part of this flower is Huarui. To highlight her, I used a manual near distance, set the focal length to 2CM, and set the aperture to the minimum, to ensure maximum depth of field. It is very difficult to clear the flowers. First, it is difficult to grasp the manual focus distance. The focus on the LCD display is clear, but it may not be clear. Second, such small flowers are generally relatively low and it is not easy to use a tripod. Third, when the shutter is pressed, there cannot be any breeze. There is no better way, only repeated shooting. I have taken this photo for at least 30 times, and my legs are sore and sweaty. If it is a film camera, the cost will be too high.
　Digital photography of flowers-light
For floral photography, light is crucial. In my experience, under natural light conditions, scattered light and backlight are easy to produce good results. Light Scattering soft and meticulous contrast is small, can show the texture and texture of flowers; backlight can draw a contour, make the thin texture of flowers translucent and touching, and can hide the messy background. In the strong sunlight, it is not easy to pat the flowers with light and side light.

Early morning after rain is a period of time when flowers are taken, the flowers are clean and elegant, the air is fresh, and the pivoting is good. When shooting flowers with scattered light, we should also carefully grasp the angle of light. The effect of the light is very different from that of the side light. We should observe and use it carefully.

When talking about the use of light, we can't help but grasp the exposure. Some friends can adjust the effect of digital images on the drawing software as they wish, while ignoring the exposure problem during shooting. In fact, later adjustments can improve the shooting deficiencies. However, the difference between the texture and color saturation of images with accurate post-adjustment and shot exposure is relatively large. Therefore, you must pay attention to the issue of exposure during shooting. If the camera does not have the manual exposure function, make good use of the exposure compensation function. When the Background Brightness is high, it is generally + 0. 7 or + 1; when the Background Brightness is low, it generally needs to be-0.3 or-1. The specific compensation coefficient depends on the Brightness Difference between the background and the flowers. For a camera with the Manual exposure function, you must observe the shooting environment and find an object with a reflectivity of or close to 18% as a reference for measuring the light. In short, early shooting must pay attention to the accuracy of exposure.

　　Digital photography of flowers-about the diagram

Among all the themes of photography, floral photography is one of the most demanding themes for composition. The basic requirement of the architecture is to highlight and beautify the theme, which is the most difficult problem to follow. For example, the golden splitting rule separates the entire image by the word in the well and places the interest points at the intersection. Sometimes it is impossible to follow this rule. Therefore, many artists say that there is no way to improve the level of composition by learning from the art, movies, TV, and other sister art.

How to Remove useless or disturbing theme scenes and highlight theme with a concise picture is one of the biggest headaches in the flower picture. The main method is to use the depth of field to blur out messy objects. when the subject is clear, use a large aperture as much as possible; or move the subject and background.

　　Digital photography of flowers-about color

Flowers win by colors and shapes. You should pay attention to the color processing in floral photography. A pair of flower pictures must have a harmonious tone and cannot be chaotic. Each flower has its own color characteristics, and determines the color you want to use based on different themes, different lighting conditions, and different backgrounds. Big Red and big green, although dazzling, but well handled, but also beautiful and pleasing to the eye; underdescribe, although dull, can be used properly, but also elegant and elegant, it is amazing. A pair of flower photography, there must be a dominant color, whether it is dominated by cold tone or warm tone, as long as the use of appropriate, can "make up and fade ".

Digital technology has opened up a broader world for photography, especially flower photography, which allows digital cameras to do their best. I hope that my friends who love digital photography will pay attention to the research and practice of floral photography, produce more outstanding works, and record the beautiful world.