Plant Photography Tips

Picture of the plant is an exercise in celebrating color. Whether in the vibrant red of a rose or a deep purple violet colored flowers and lush landscapes can dominate nature photography. Interior lighting equipment requires lots of natural light to compare - it's hard to beat outdoors on a sunny day.

Capturing the beauty of a flower garden or a forest is not as simple as point and shoot. No matter how intrinsically beautiful theme, all the pictures that still require an eye for composition and the right equipment. Interior lighting is a nuisance, but it is actually possible that natural lighting is too bright! The wind also presents a challenge: Plants are not known exactly when to stop even the slightest breeze blowing through. Want to photograph your garden? Planning a tropical vacation with a DSLR in tow? Update the art of photography plant with five tips for using lighting, depth of field and the right equipment for the job.


Use a remote shutter release for windshield and Windy Days 


It is a warm summer day. Temperature hovering around 80 degrees Fahrenheit (26.7 degrees Celsius), and the sun is out and a light breeze perfectly balanced heat. What day is best to go out and nature photography? Well, problem: That breeze will keep flowers and other plants to sit still. You can wait for the breeze to die down and hope Mother Nature behaves. Another option: shoot with a high shutter speed. The camera shutter is open for a very short period of time, minimizing the chances of ruining a motion picture. But the wind is less likely to work.

Here's a better solution: Fight the wind! Or more precisely, methods of preparing block. There are a couple of ways to fight the wind when shooting flowers or other plants. First: Consider a windbreak to calm the air around your subject. For example, a tripod mounted between a flower and the wind can hold a piece of cardboard or a light reflector to block drafts. If the breeze is soft, even a backpack a strategic position may be sufficient to ensure a good shot.

Or a remote shutter trigger is used in combination with a tripod is ideal for plant photography, especially when it comes to wind. If you touch a camera always introduces a small degree of tremor because nature photographs are often taken at relatively low shutter speeds, minimizing as much as possible shake is a good thing. And when there is a breeze, you never know how long you have to wait for the perfect moment to take a photo. With a remote trigger, do not have to hover over the camera - just created a comfortable position and keep the shutter button on the hand.


Experiment with scale and Landscape Shots 


Plant Photography tends to make us think of shooting with a strong focus closeup of blooming flowers. Close-up with strong depth of field are perfect for creating bold, striking images - but sometimes it's worth taking a step back and admire the view.

Do not focus on a single flower, and focus on an entire field, or an interesting variety of plants, or a moss covered rock ledge. Shoot an interesting angle. Maybe that means getting up close to a flower, but with considerable depth of field to keep everything in the background in focus. Shoot from a low angle to balance the plants against the sky. In the right place, the scale of a landscape photograph can be more dramatic than the usual tight shot.

When taking a landscape photo with a wide angle lens, everything from the ground to the sky will be in focus. Usually, however, the picture plant requires a depth of field, the next tip is about distinguishing a flower from its background.


Focus Shooting with depth of field 

Imagine this: a surprisingly bright, richly layered, every detail in sharp focus gorgeous red rose. Now imagine a mess distraction of grass, weeds and other flowers directly behind the rose. Your eye can not focus properly in the pink thanks to the background. That's a problem. The solution: knowing how to properly frame the subject with depth of field. Shot with a shallow depth of field will keep the subject in focus by blurring the background.

Taking pictures with the largest aperture setting creates a depth of field isolates the subject. The quality of the lens aperture can also affect the decision. The aesthetic quality of the blur, also known as "bokeh" is affected by the amount of leaves that are in a lens aperture. Pleasing background blur keeps interfering in the subject you want.

Using color, composition and Shadows 

This advice may sound contradictory, but it is very important: Do not shoot in direct sunlight. But why? Bright flowers look amazing in the sunlight! What could go wrong? Well, as well as LCD and plasma technologies strive to match the quality of the color of nature, the cameras face their own challenges. Direct sunlight on a clear day can be too contrast for a camera to take in.

This is the problem with disco lighting: the contrast of light and dark is too hard, and detail can be washed. Soft lighting is actually better. A cloudy or overcast day ago softer lighting conditions, which improves color saturation and provides a more manageable range between light and shadow. The plants look better. If it is very sunny, a piece of equipment called a light diffuser can help reduce the strong lighting.

Use a macro lens

Macro lenses are tools up close and personal in the world of photography. They deserve close-ups are not good enough: Macro lenses take extremeclose object planes, keeping a tight focus photography. Macro lenses bring the focal point of a camera closer to enlarge the amount of space between the camera sensor and lens aperture. This means shooting with a macro lens requires establishing the closest thing to a topic as possible. That can be difficult with insects or other subjects that tend to move, but the plants are usually pretty good about staying put.