7 Tips To Get Your Best-Ever Spring Flower Shots
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- 06 Apr 2022
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With spring finally upon us, it’s time to dust off the camera and get outdoors. Annette Lepple shares her top seven tips to help you get your best ever Spring flower and foliage photographs.
Seven tips for better Spring flower photographs
Be creative
A great way to keep one’s photography fresh is to work with creative or vintage lenses, which can be very challenging but a lot of fun once you get the hang of it. Or try making your own creative apertures – it’s easy! Play around with different patterns and backgrounds to find out what works best for each subject. Or try your luck with intentional camera movement. It’s much more satisfying to create special effects with your camera than with Photoshop.
Magical light
I strongly believe that you can only create special images if you’re passionate and prepared to make a real effort. The quality of light is as important as your subject. My favourite time is early morning because the light has a pure, innocent feel that cannot be beaten. This often means getting up in the middle of the night to be somewhere else in time for the shoot, but when it all falls into place it’s one of the most rewarding things in the world. Of course evening light has its own qualities.
Change your perspective
So many people just stand and take images without moving. We’ve got arms and legs, so keep moving – crouch low down, explore different positions and open yourself to fresh views and perspectives. The vantage point you choose has a big effect on the message or mood of an image. Shooting from above evokes different emotions to shooting from below. Getting rid of ‘seeing conventions’ will dramatically add to your photos.
Break the rules
I think a lot of rules are useless and only contribute to restricting imagination. If you’ve learned the famous photography rules, it’s time you broke them to set your spirit free. Photography is a way of painting and it’s up to you to fill the images with soul and make them tell a story. You can be as ‘techy’ as you like, but you’ll only be able to touch others if you see with your heart. It’s also by leaving your comfort zone that you will grow as a human and as a photographer.
