Photographing Flowers in the Winter
For those who like to photograph flowers, winter is a long and tedious season to get through. It takes a bit of feeling for adventure and patience to find subject matter. But those who like to take pictures of bright and colourful flowers need to start thinking of creating an indoor patio studio.
Sometimes, when you have taken a lot of photos of one subject you may find that you feel like you have run out of possibilities. The way to get around this problem is to change the lighting in which you shoot your subject. You can do this in a variety of ways by increasing light, decreasing light, backlighting, sidelighting, and making use of reflected light.
You can find affordable clamp lights at most improvement stores, they are not difficult to use and can be placed just about anywhere. For this studio you will also need a power strip to plug the lights in, and extension cords to get the lights where you want them. A small table and vases for your flowers, as well as backgrounds, black or white foam is the easiest to use and vary. Of course, you also need to find something to clamp your clamp lights to.
Once the studio is done, you just need to enjoy playing with the light and the flowers.
[Via: Nature Photographers]
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- Moving Flowers Indoors
- Blooming in Winter
- Phipps' Winter Flower Show
- Photographing Your Garden
- Blooming in the Heat of the Winter Sun
