Tips for Plants and Flowers by Anthony Schreck
Anthony was kind enough to sit down with us and provide some tips for shooting all kinds of flora. All images by Anthony Brett Schreck and made with the Panasonic Lumix L1.
Article rating: 7.42
| Tips for Plants and Flowers by Anthony Schreck
Anthony was kind enough to sit down with us and provide some tips for shooting all kinds of flora. All images by Anthony Brett Schreck and made with the Panasonic Lumix L1. Article rating: 7.42 |
Anthony Brett Schreck, Tony, is a Photojournalist, Editorial, Advertising, and Portrait photographer in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area with over 15 years of experience. Some clients include: Twin Cities Business Monthly (voted by Folio Magazine as "Americas Best Regional Business Magazine"), MPLS/ST. Paul Magazine, Barbara Koster Design, Best Buy, Bozell World Wide, Inc., ClemCo Inc., The Coghlan Group, Con Agra, Edelman Public Relations, Land O' Lakes, Lands End, Minnesota Technology Inc., Nicros, Parker Hughes, Renewing The Countryside, Skyway Publications, University of MN, USbancorp and Vertical Endeavors. He is also one of a select few photographers teaching for the Digital Photo Academy.
Tip #1 Use the sun to side light or back light to make the vegetation seem to glow.
Tip #2 Use a low angle to to make the most of reflective surfaces such as water.
Tip #3 Zoom in. Use your lens in telephoto to shorten depth of field and to compress distant objects.
Tip #4 use a wide aperture (f/3.5 here) to isolate the object you want primary emphasis on.
Tip #5 Set your exposure to make the water go a deep black to make the flowers pop.
Tip #6 Use fill flash to make the flower stand out even when the sun is out-use the sun as fill.
Tip # 7 Use a reflector. Here I used a gold reflector to bounce light from my on camera flash in bounce mode, aiming the reflector to light inside the flower.