When it comes to cherry blossom viewing season, do you really want to feel when you see all kinds of Cherry Blossom pictures on the Internet? March is the best viewing season for cherry blossom, but although Cherry Blossom looks good, it is very difficult to shoot. For senior photography enthusiasts, it also requires some effort to take good photos of cherry blossom.
Tips for Cherry Blossom shooting 1 -- camera shooting mode
Good photographic equipment is the general success of photography. For Cherry Blossom shooting equipment, we can sum up three key words: 'large aperture', 'long focus' and' micro distance '.
1. Macro lens
The macro lens is for close-up shooting. It can not only avoid the influence of the environment on the subject to the greatest extent, but also interpret the beauty and elegance of a small cluster of cherry blossom.
The characteristic of cherry blossom is that even a thin branch is full of cherry blossom, even when there is no wind, it is still far away. It is not easy to take a close-up of cherry blossom with a large picture. However, many cherry trees are decades old, and will also send out new leaves and buds on the thick trunk. They are less affected by the wind and are the most suitable objects for us to take a close-up of cherry trees.
2. Telephoto lens
Using the telephoto lens can not only realize the background visualization, but also effectively cut the background, and put the unnecessary clutter outside the viewfinder.
3. Large diaphragm
Large aperture can achieve a very good background visualization effect, so that there will be no messy background to take the eyes when shooting cherry blossom. Use a large aperture to create a very small depth of field or directly set up a macro photography to create a clear stamen and hazy background.
Tips for photographing Cherry Blossom 2 -- how to photograph the composition of Cherry Blossom
1. Avoid 'full' composition
The cherry blossom in full bloom will inevitably make the picture lose the focus of attention. In the big scene full of cherry blossom, there must be a finishing touch or a proper blank. The composition of primary and secondary combination is more likely to highlight the exuberance of cherry blossom due to the comparison effect.
2. Close up or close-up shooting.
Close up and close-up shooting can not only show the delicate cherry blossom, but also express the details and texture of the flower.
3. Sky as background
Cherry blossom is light in color, clustered in clusters, small in single flower, often without the green leaves to set off. It's difficult to take a fresh feeling for the hot and noisy flowers that seem to open. It's not necessary to blend all the flowers into the bright blue sky to reflect the beauty of Xiangrong Japanese.
When spring comes, there must be other trees, flowers and other objects around the cherry tree. We can use these objects to 'take photos' with the cherry tree, which enriches the color of the picture, and also shows the characteristics of the cherry tree different from other trees, flowers and grass. If you can match the appropriate theme, don't make a noise.
4. Tree trunks or ancient buildings as a foil
Many cherry trees are decades old. They also blossom and sprout on the thick trunk. After the combination of the flower cluster and the trunk or branch, the texture of the trunk and the shape of the branch can highlight the cherry blossom cluster very well, so as to achieve the point face combination.
If you choose the cherry tree near the ancient building, you can choose a cherry tree to combine with the outline of the background building for composition, and you can shoot the simple atmosphere.
Flowers are so beautiful, your eyes are often only focused on the flowers, be careful not to appear incongruous or distracted things in any part of the picture, such as cigarette butts, dead leaves and so on. In order to make the photographed flowers more prominent, you can choose a background different from the color shade of the flowers. The blue sky is the best background, which can fully set off the brightness of the flowers. If you catch up with overcast days, don't be discouraged. Try to find green leaves as the background, which can also compare the delicate beauty of cherry blossom.
Tips for cherry shooting 3 -- how to use up cherry
1. Smooth shooting
Fairing is the most commonly used lighting method in photography. Fairing can faithfully record the elegant characteristics of cherry blossoms, and can better show the blue of the blue sky when taking the sky as the background. But if all the photos are taken in a smooth way, it's hard to avoid "a thousand flowers on one side". If you see too many photos of the same type, you'll get visual fatigue.
There are various angles for Cherry Blossom shooting. You can make creative attempts: the front light is the most saturated, the side light can show the texture of the flower, and the backlight can produce a soft translucency or silhouette effect. Remember to avoid direct sunlight. The above illustration shows the different effects of different light angles.
2. Backlight shooting
The cherry blossom has dense flowers and its shape is not obvious. In fact, it is not suitable for backlighting. However, the cherry blossom petals are very thin and have good light transmission. If backlighting is used to shoot large scenes, it can enhance the sense of hierarchy and space between the cherry blossom and the background. But in some cases, using backlight or side backlight will produce some special visual effects, which is not impossible to try.
3. Low sensitivity
When shooting, you can choose to reduce the sensitivity, so that the cherry blossom details can be more delicate. Card machine is better not to exceed the sensitivity of iso250, SLR camera is better not to exceed the sensitivity of iso400.
4. Shooting in cloudy days
On a sunny day, we can take photos with the help of blue sky and cherry blossom branches in full bloom to show the warm, spectacular and unrestrained beauty of cherry blossom. If there is no blue sky as the background on a cloudy day, and the sky as the background, it can only be gray above gray, and then the pictures can't be seen. So, what should we do? We can choose the green pine, maple, green bamboo, cherry tree itself black trunk and other objects with large contrast with white as the background. The cherry blossom photographed is soft in color and spectacular.
Tips for shooting Cherry Blossom
Cherry blossom has a short flowering period. It takes about 7 days for a cherry blossom to wither. So when the cherry blossom is open, tourists will flock to enjoy the flowers, which inevitably leads to very noisy scenes. If you don't want to shoot more people than flowers, you have to think about how to simplify the background. And framing is often the key to success.
1. Avoid large numbers of tourists
Unless you are a photographer who is shooting the Cherry Blossom Festival live report, the most important thing when shooting the cherry blossom scene selection is to avoid making a large number of tourists become the roles in your photos. Try to choose a place with a clean and simple background. If you can't avoid the crowd, overhead shooting is a good compensation method.
2. Don't just look away
The so-called "I don't know the true face of Lushan Mountain, but only because I am in the mountain", so we should be in the flower sea when enjoying flowers, but we should try to stay away from the flower sea when shooting large scenes.
3. Don't pat flowers blindly
In addition to the cherry blossom pose, we sometimes need to find some background that can reflect the environment, explain the background of the venue or add the charm of the photo. For example, an ancient cornice or a corner behind a cherry blossom, or a hazy figure of a beautiful woman behind a cherry blossom, can be the highlight of a unique photo.
4. Combination of dynamic and static
The pictures of birds and cherry blossoms playing on the cherry tree show not only the flexibility and loveliness of birds, but also the beauty of cherry blossom. Besides small Hydrangea, sparrow and brown Bulbul are also common birds on the cherry tree. In addition, many cherry trees and branches by the river stretch out into the water, which looks very beautiful. However, if the water is not fresh enough, the effect of the pictures taken may not be ideal. If mandarin ducks and wild ducks can be taken into the picture, it will increase the vitality of the picture.