Discover how to shoot early spring flowers. Download our free photography cheat sheet and discover the best camera settings to get you started this spring!
With winter just about behind us, now is the time to start thinking about spring photography ideas and how to improve your flower photos.
Early spring flowers offer you some great opportunities to shoot splashes of colour in an otherwise still dormant landscape. Whether it’s in your garden, a public park or even on the side of the road, there’s plenty of fantastic early spring flower photos for the taking.
In this new photography cheat sheet we’ve listed some of the best camera settings to get you started shooting early spring flowers.
As always, there are no hard and fast rules here. These settings are great to get you started, and from here you can experiment with other creative effects!
SEE MORE: 25 flower photography tips for beginners
Try these settings…
Exposure mode
Aperture Priority
Focus mode
Single or One Shot
Aperture
f/4
ISO
200
How to improve your flower shots
- Look for areas where the ground is carpeted in fl owers to fi ll the frame.
- You’ll get the most dramatic results by shooting into the light, but watch out
for this causing under-exposure. - Choose the most obvious flower as a focal point, and carefully focus on it.
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