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Choose the right equipment for shooting flowers
Want blooming marvellous shots? Then you need to know what gear to get and how to use it.
The vibrant colours of spring and summer draw photographers out into gardens or the countryside. Choosing the right camera settings and lens to snap these sumptuous hues is vital if you're going to do them justice. Depth of field is also at a premium, so you'll need to use an aperture that keeps the right part of the image in focus.
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Which lens should I use?
While a macro lens is ideal for closeup shots of flowers, practically any zoom can be used to take really nice pictures of cultivated or wild flora. A telephoto zoom setting, for instance, is excellent for shooting a floral border (or for shooting bluebell woods, as discussed) simply because the distant perspective crams the colour into the frame in a way that a wide-angle can't.
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But wide lenses do have their uses. If they are used close enough, they can focus on the habitat and still show the flowers so that they dominate the foreground of the frame. An 18mm setting of an 18-55mm zoom was used for our shot. The pop-up flash was used to give extra emphasis to the flowers.
Posted by Chris George on Friday, Jul 2009 at 02:27pm GMT. First appeared: PhotoPlus magazine
an interesting feature but you failled to bring lens choice into the equasion,for example depth of field would be far shallower at those f stops if you were using a macro lens compared to say a 18-50 or 24-70 and focusing becomes more and more criticle,do correct me if im wrong.
#1. Posted on Friday, 30 Oct 2009 at 07:04pm GMT. Report this
Daniel I agrue, all of his articles are vague
#2. Posted on Saturday, 13 Mar 2010 at 10:26am GMT. Report this
sorry about typo - replace agrue with agree
#3. Posted on Saturday, 13 Mar 2010 at 10:27am GMT. Report this
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