Thursday, January 30, 2014

For Tree Photography

By George Dodson


In autumn trees look gorgeous. But it is impossible to wait for the period to take a photograph of the tree.

Your camera

What kind of lenses do you want to use? It depends upon totally up to you. The lenses vary from wide angle to shorter telephotos. You are free to use compact camera also. As in dark forest light is unsatisfactory, you should take a tripod must. If you are going for a long travel you should take a bag that has multiple pockets and enough space so that you can take all the essential things with you.

Target the woods

You can get trees easily near by us like our garden, beside the roads etc. For getting excellent specimen you are suggested to go out of doors. Though woods are good specimen for photography but you can not use tripod in all gardens or site. So at first you have to know about the place before carrying the tripod. It is good to take the whole view when you are willing to work on a group of trees. You can also select a portion for an ulterior view.

You should go at proper time

As highly contrasting light is not good for photography you should choice late morning or afternoon for tree photography. It is not convenient to take photographs on a cloudy day though it is good for some special cases.

Go for textures and patterns

If you want to work with a single tree I suggest you to go as close as possible. Go to the trunk and cover some texture in your photo range.

Go for man-made things

If you take some man made things in your coverage area it will enhance the beauty of your photography. But the color of the object should match with the soft nature.

Go to leaves

In a clear blue sky it is good to look for canopy and leaves of tree. The contrasting ability between blue and green is pretty good. So, you can go for more details in leaves. You should not take the photo of a bug chewed leaf. When you need to get closer to the object, use micro lenses of 100 mm of diameter. On the other hand when you need more interpretation it is convenient to use an extension tube or coupling rings on two lenses.

If you use thicker leaves for photography, they will not shine and if you use leaves of the same structure your works look duplicative.




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