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…
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
