Tips on Great Flower Photos
Jennifer
HOW TO TAKE BETTER FLOWER PICTURES
It's spring. Flowers are "busting out all over."
And we all love to take pictures of them. Here are
some tips on how to take better flower pictures from
the world's largest photography school, New York
Institute of Photography (NYI).
First, carry a spray can filled with water. When
you select a single flower or bunch of flowers you
want to photograph, spray them with droplets of water to
give them a fresh dewy look.
Second, walk around the flower to see how it looks
in light coming from different directions. Watch
carefully when the light (usually, the sun) is
behind the flower, coming toward the camera. Often,
the petals will glow with beautiful iridescence.
This is called "backlighting" because the light is
coming from the back of the subject (in this case,
the flower). Backlighting is often the best type
of lighting for translucent subjects like petals.
(Terrific for flags too.)
Third, NYI suggests that, while a flower by itself
is pretty, it often makes a so-so picture. To make
the picture come alive, wait until something adds
life to the flower - for example, a bee alights,
or a spider crawls into it, or a hummingbird
pays a visit. It takes patience, but it pays off
if, for example, after you wait a few minutes, a
butterfly lands on your flower. Shoot! The picture
you'll get will be really great!
These are a few of the tips on flower photography
you'll find on NYI's Website. For more, visit
<http://www.nyip.com>
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David Roberts
Jennifer wrote:
> Third, NYI suggests that, while a flower by itself
> is pretty, it often makes a so-so picture. To make
> the picture come alive, wait until something adds
> life to the flower - for example, a bee alights,
> or a spider crawls into it, or a hummingbird
> pays a visit. It takes patience, ...
Yes, it would, wouldn't it?
Ok my tip for interesting flower (or fungi) photos,
get hold of a surface silvered mirror. Position it
below the flower and photograph the reflection.
David
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Bill Robinson
> Ok my tip for interesting flower (or fungi) photos,
> get hold of a surface silvered mirror. Position it
> below the flower and photograph the reflection.
>
> David
For what its worth - best tip on any photo is to
focus your thinking and articulate the purpose of
this picture; i.e., something like wanting to
show the fuzziness of the peach, etc.
Bill
Richard
Interested mind would like to know why it should be 'surface silvered'.
Richard
David Roberts <oss...@sos.bangor.ac.yuk> wrote in article
> Ok my tip for interesting flower (or fungi) photos,
> get hold of a surface silvered mirror. Position it
> below the flower and photograph the reflection.
>
> David
David Roberts
Richard wrote:
>
> Interested mind would like to know why it should be 'surface silvered'.
Just being fussy I suppose, but it's to prevent a secondary
reflection from the surface of the glass itself. Anything like
that is exaggerated when you're working close-up. It might just
make the difference between a great photo and a mediocre one.
Tom Chisholm
Jennifer <ny...@mail.idt.net> wrote:
>HOW TO TAKE BETTER FLOWER PICTURES
>
>It's spring. Flowers are "busting out all over."
>And we all love to take pictures of them. Here are
>some tips on how to take better flower pictures from
>the world's largest photography school, New York
>Institute of Photography (NYI).
>
Good info but there are no tips on how to get some blue flowers,
particularly Morning Glory and also bluebells, to be blue on photographs
as in most cases they turn out pink.
The reason is that the petals have a high reflectance in the infra-red
which is recorded by colour film as red, so making the flowers
purplish-pink. Kodak have published an info leaflet on how to correct
for this - I think I have it somewhere and if anyone is interested, I'll
look afor it and summarise it here.
It may be of course that the latest generation of films have overcome the
problem - I'll know when I see my pics of the bluebells.
Tom
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Tom Chisholm
These are my personal views - not those of my employer