Phototripping: Flower Photography

Flower Photography with photographer Vlada Gorbunova

Now’s the time to improve your flower photos. Spring and summer offer huge potential to shoot stunning plant and flower portraits. Whether it’s in your garden, a public park or even on the side of the road, there are plenty of fantastic photos for the taking. What you need is a DSLR camera, a macro lens or try extension tubes with your prime or telephoto lens. A good tripod is worth its weight in gold, so pick the heaviest one you can find. A camera remote release can be used as well to keep the picture sharp and avoid the dreaded camera-shake. Aside from that, you should use live view to achieve the proper focus you want and shoot in manual mode. Keep the ISO between 100, 200 or 400 if using fast shutter speed, shoot in RAW, set White Balance to Daylight, use Single Drive mode and a small aperture to get maximum details or use wide aperture to get a sharply focused subject with blurred background. You can also use reflector or Macro Ring Flash if there is less light scenario. Photographer Vlada Gorbunova shows how to shoot flowers, around the world…

Poppy seed

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Title: Poppy Seed

LOCATION: Italy, Tuscany

SETTING: Aperture Priority Mode

CAMERA MODEL: Nikon D60

F-STOP/APERTURE: f5.6

ISO: 400

SHUTTER SPEED: 1/400sec

 

Rose

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Title: Rose

LOCATION: Russia, Ufa

SETTING: Aperture Priority Mode

CAMERA MODEL: Nikon D60

F-STOP/APERTURE: f5.6

ISO: 400

SHUTTER SPEED: 1/320sec

 

Orchid

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Title: Orchid

LOCATION: Singapore

SETTING: Aperture Priority Mode

CAMERA MODEL: Nikon D60

F-STOP/APERTURE: f11

ISO: 400

SHUTTER SPEED: 1/100sec

Purple lotus

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Title: Purple Lotus

LOCATION: Singapore

SETTING: Aperture Priority Mode

CAMERA MODEL: Nikon D60

F-STOP/APERTURE: f5.6

ISO: 400

SHUTTER SPEED: 1/160sec

 

White Lotus

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Title: White Lotus

LOCATION: China, Shenzhen

SETTING: Aperture Priority Mode

CAMERA MODEL: Nikon D60

F-STOP/APERTURE: f5.6

ISO: 400

SHUTTER SPEED: 1/125sec

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