Saturday, February 25, 2012

Tips and Tricks for Plants Photography - How to Shoot Plants and Florals?

Plants Photography Tips and Techniques

Scientists define just two genres of living organisms exist on earth, first is animal and the other one is plant. Both of these two are solely related to nature. So, the maximum utility one can earn by capturing the moments when they are in their natural state. Beauty of plants photography is when a photographer captures the natural setting of plants in which they normally exist, like pale or yellow flowers of autumn season, breeze blowing leaves, rain in forest, tips of water on leaves and so on. These are the natural setting and no one can artificially arrange such sort of positions manually. So the essence of plant photography is strictly related with capturing nature in such type of attractive moments.
Taking good quality pictures of plants and flowers seem unapproachable. However, here are some effective and simple techniques which can bring magical improvement in your plants photography results even if you are an amateur photographer.

Planning is a Key to Success: Gather your equipment by picking the correct lens. Setup tripod stand and then prepare for the best and perfect timing. Finally, examine your subject before pressing shutter.
Focus Subjects: Greens are full of lots of distractions. They can be flowers-sheds, fences, weeds, other flowers, cloth lines and so on. But the point is whether you need to put these elements in your snap or not. Both of the options are viable but you need to sort out the useful and useless things before going for a final shot.

Don’t Overlook the Dead-Marked or Dying Flowers:   Sometimes remains of florets can present you with brilliant context and story. However, the full bloomed flowers will probably draw your attention at first but there may be more interesting shot in the form of ‘ugly duckling’ next to them.

Detect a Pivotal Point in Plant Photography:  A professional photographer always think of viewers’ attention. It means where he wants to draw attention of viewers in a photograph. Think through setting it off centre by using the rule of thirds. But make sure to find something in your shot which will grab viewer’s eye. So, cautiously consider exactly how to position it.

Go Abstract: Usually photographers focus on bigger pictures. But sometimes moving extra close and concentrating on one part of the flower can craft wonderful and superb images that form an unusual and abstract quality. Also look for different and contrasting tints, patterns and textures.

Focus is Crucial in Plant Photography: It is important to have sharp focus in almost all forms of photography. But whereas flower Macro photography is concerned it is crucial; even a tiny modification can bring enormous effects for your shot because the depth of turf is too small. In fact it is a game of millimetres, so watch for your every move carefully. First determine the point of interest and then put all of your efforts to make certain that it is as sharp as possible. It sounds sort of a real challenge, particularly outdoors on windy and gusty days where you’ll possibly finish up taking lots of pictures and counting on luck to some extent.

Lighting: Lighting is also one of the crucial factors in any type of photography. So, ideally in plant photography every subject to should be well lit to capture the true colours of nature. In case if light is very low, you can go for a flash light. But make sure that it should not be direct flash because it will cause reflections. So, try to use flash diffusers for spreading the effect of flash.

Lenses: Be cynic while choosing lenses. But if you are using Point and Shoot Cameras with no interchangeable lenses then you’ll visibly have fewer options. You can switch your camera into macro-mode by which you can focus a little closer and then set the aperture. Also you can focus the field manually through the movable lenses.

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