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Butterflies fly in spring, summer and autumn, how to use the camera and mobile phone to shoot "butterfly love flowers"? The following is combined with the original picture, talking about the real shooting experience of "Butterfly Love Flower", mainly in the following aspects: 1, the settings of the camera and lens and others. 2, shoot the lighting and composition of "Butterfly Love Flower". 3, shooting "Butterfly Love Flower" background selection and processing. 4, it is easy to shoot the time and timing of "butterfly love flower". 5. Close-up of butterflies and close-up shots. 6, the habits of several common butterflies with a shooting focus. 7, mobile phone camera shooting butterfly method.
Black-ended Leopard Butterfly: A drunken party Hugh
1, camera and lens settings and others. (1-1) Camera settings. According to the photographer's own shooting habits, it can be set to light premium (AV) or fast excellent (TV). I personally like light superiority mainly (f 8-11), fast excellent supplement (not less than 1/320, mainly used for shooting wings like large butterflies and butterflies in flight). Spot mode, single point focus.
Large glass butterfly
(1-2) Lens settings and selection. The lens settings are dominated by autofocus. In addition to the wide-angle lens used to shoot butterflies with special effects. Most conventional focal length lenses can shoot a good "butterfly love flower" film. The lenses I often use are: 100 micro and 70-200mm lenses. Baiwei is mainly used to shoot small and medium-sized butterflies, or to shoot butterfly close-ups or close-ups. The 70-200mm lens is used when photographing medium and large butterflies such as butterflies.
Small grey butterflies
(1-3) Photographing other "Butterfly Love Flowers". Although most of the butterflies photographed are stopped on the flowers to suck pollen, due to the flexibility of butterflies and close-up shooting, conventional tripods in most cases are not suitable for shooting, lack of flexibility. Basically, it is necessary to rely on handheld, or use a miniature tripod, with the help of the limbs of the body for fulcrum shooting (red arrows in the figure below), so that the flexibility and stability of the shooting can be guaranteed.
2, shoot the lighting and composition of "Butterfly Love Flower". Due to the small and short villi of the butterfly body and wings, therefore, shooting the butterfly, weak backlight, side light and scattered light can better express the texture of the butterfly's fine and short villi. Unless there is a special need, try to avoid shooting in strong backlights or strong lights.
Black-rimmed skirts for butterflies
Shooting the composition of butterflies, due to the different characteristics of different species of butterflies, the focus of the shooting composition will also be different, which will be explained in conjunction with point 6 later in the text.
Yellow trilinear butterfly
3, shooting "Butterfly Love Flower" background selection and processing. Butterflies like to stop and suck pollen on flowers. Although the flowers look full of joy, if not handled properly, it is easy to cause the shooting screen to be disorganized. Therefore, in the process of shooting "Butterfly Love Flower", the selection and processing of the foreground and background is very important to enhance the perception of the picture.
Stone wall butterfly
(3-1) Make full use of the characteristics of the lens used and get as close as possible to the subject. Play the role of lens depth of field to blur the foreground or background. My personal habit: I prefer to use the aperture f 8-11. Blurred bokeh of the foreground or background is achieved by shortening the shooting distance.
(3-2) Shoot calmly, do not seek speed. Try to choose a relatively simple or ordered background (such as flowers, etc.) to set off the subject.
Peacock butterfly
4, it is easy to shoot the time and timing of "butterfly love flower". (4-1) Butterflies are insects that love warmth and cold. In the early morning, when the temperature is cool, butterflies like to bask in the sun, less flexibility, and it is easier to approach the shooting at this time.
Vegetable powder butterfly
(4-2) When a butterfly has just pupated into a butterfly, it takes a while to "harden" its outstretched wings. Butterflies that have just metamorphosed into butterflies are easy to approach.
Freshly pupated into a butterfly: leopard print butterfly
(4-3) Butterflies are also good times to shoot up close when they suck pollen or suck water.
Black-ended leopard butterfly
White-striped butterflies that suck on moisture
(4-4) Butterflies are also very easy to approach when they cross their tails.
Slender butterfly, also known as: toma butterfly
Silver-banded three-tailed grey butterfly
5, "Butterfly Love Flower" close-up and close-up scene shooting. Shooting close-ups and close-ups of "Butterfly Love Flowers" can be used to shoot the butterfly's compound eyes, antennae, pollen-sucking mouthparts, and special markings of butterflies at a macro range when the butterfly is relatively easy to approach the shooting. As shown in the following figure
The taste of summer
"Eye lines" on the wings of the peacock butterfly
Sometimes, playing the "panoramic film" mode, shooting "butterfly love flowers", the long and wide screen will make the visual perception novel.
Rippled little grey butterfly
Fine butterflies
6, the habits of several common butterflies with a shooting focus.
(6-1) Photography of small gray butterflies. The small grey butterfly is the smaller of the common butterflies. When the small gray butterfly folds its wings, different varieties of small gray butterflies show different lines and beauty on the back of the wings. Most of the little gray butterflies are not very afraid of people, the pause is long, and the sucking pollen is very concentrated. You can patiently choose the angle and timing of shooting. Composition: It is composed of a flat surface, showing the characteristics of the wings of the little gray butterfly.
Chess stone small gray butterfly
Cycad small gray butterfly
Three-star double-tailed swallow butterfly
(6-2) Shooting of butterflies. The size of the butterfly is similar to that of the small gray butterfly, and it is not too afraid of people. The obvious characteristics of the butterfly are: large round eyes, with hook-like tentacles, it looks like a "tiger and tiger", which is the need to show through appropriate composition when shooting butterflies.
In addition, when the butterfly stops, the four wings are "three-dimensional" in two flats. Therefore, in order to clearly shoot the "stereoscopic" panorama of the butterfly, it is necessary to take into account the blurred bokeh of the background, and maintain a proper shooting distance.
Red butterflies
Bamboo red butterfly
(6-3) Photography of pink butterflies. It is the most common butterfly. The body size is between the small gray butterfly and the butterfly. Smaller sensitivity is stronger in gray butterflies. It's easier to get close to shooting. The wings and back of the pink butterfly are relatively plain. The wings are folded during the stop, and the posture is beautiful, which is the focus of the shooting.
Broad-brimmed yellow-pink butterfly
(6-4) Shooting of butterflies. Butterflies are medium to large butterflies. There are many kinds, and the body color is colorful and rich. High sensitivity. When the wings are stopped, they often like to open constantly, and they shake back and forth. Butterflies have faster wing opening and closing frequencies, so I will adjust the camera to fast and excellent (TV), and the shutter speed is set to 1/320 + continuous shooting for capture.
Yellow butterfly
Red star-spotted butterfly
Meteor butterfly
Peacock butterfly
The difference between the wing surface and the back of the wings of some butterflies is really impressive, the magic of nature.
The dead leaf butterfly, the most perfect pretender in the insect world, mimics the dead leaf, almost fake and real.
Dead leaf butterfly when the wings are closed
Dead leaf butterfly when spreading its wings flat
The glazed butterfly, after the wings are folded, is a rusty iron piece.
Glass butterfly when the wings are closed
Glazed butterfly with wings spread
(6-5) Photography of butterflies. The dancing butterfly is the largest of the butterflies. In addition to close-ups, shooting butterflies most of the time has to be shot with a medium telephoto.
Some butterflies, when sucking pollen, their wings are basically constantly flapping, and the frequency is also fast. Shooting butterflies, more often than not, shoot with shutter priority (TV), and set the shutter (more than 1/320) + continuous shooting according to the distance of shooting.
Glass butterfly
White-striped butterfly
Jade with butterflies
Citrus butterfly
Green ribbon butterfly
7, mobile phone camera shooting butterfly method. Under the conventional use of mobile phone cameras to shoot butterflies, the main problem is that the blur of the background is weak. Therefore, shooting butterflies with mobile phones needs to be timely: as close as possible + appropriate digital zoom, and with the choice of background to shoot. This method has a certain distance from the background scene for shooting butterflies, and the effect of background blur blur is still acceptable.
Mobile phone shooting: big white stripes make butterflies
Mobile phone shooting: Yellow pink butterfly
Mobile phone shot: Long-tailed brown clam butterfly
If the butterfly is too close to the background, the background blur effect is not good. But if you choose a more orderly background shooting, the effect is still passable.
Mobile phone shooting: Wide-striped yellow three-line butterfly
If you choose a simple and clean background, the effect of shooting, it is naturally good.
Mobile phone shooting: Glass butterfly
Mobile phone shot: Stone wall butterfly
Mobile phone shooting: Two-tailed butterfly
Mobile phone shooting: Fragmented green butterfly
Finally, shooting "Butterfly Love Flowers", it is important for the photographer to be calm and calm. Many insects (including butterflies) do not have good vision, relying on a strong sense of smell to perceive changes in the surrounding environment. The photographer's peaceful aura is conducive to approaching the subject butterfly, so as to get more shooting composition, angle selection and shooting timing, and shoot a satisfactory "butterfly love flower" film.
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