Angelic Flower Photography with a 70-300 Telephoto
Angelic Flower Photography with a 70-300 Telephoto
Flower photography is usually synonymous with macro, so why am I using a telephoto zoom? I only have 30 minutes today to capture the incredible spring cherry blossoms. There’s no time for careful planning. Grab your telephoto and let’s go…. we’ll talk settings and marvel at the soft beautiful mood of spring.
Congratulations to all of you… you are amazing! Thanks so much for sharing your beautiful images with me. Submit your images to Instagram hashtag #heyrachellerch… I’ll be featuring select images on Sundays!
This Week’s Instagram Images:
Brian Crane: https://www.instagram.com/briancranephotography/
Erich Anderson: https://www.instagram.com/erichanderson/
Diane Puff: https://www.instagram.com/puffdiane/
George Weiss: https://www.instagram.com/georgeweissphotography/
HC: https://www.instagram.com/hc4jc_/
Kimberly Young: https://www.instagram.com/after_the_snap/
Louise Jovovic: https://www.instagram.com/louisejovovic/
Just Lovely Photography by Dominique Cooper: https://www.instagram.com/just_lovely_photography/
John Fitzpatrick: https://www.instagram.com/just_lovely_photography/
Geoff Scott: https://www.instagram.com/just_lovely_photography/
My Camera Gear:
Lowepro Protactic 450 AW: https://geni.us/s0sJ
Sony a99ii: https://geni.us/hFKTAeF
Sony Zeiss 16-35 f2.8 SSM ZA: https://geni.us/ChypoL
Sony Zeiss 24-70 f2.8 SSM ZA: https://geni.us/OGDxAgP
Sony 70-300 f4.5-5.6 SSM G: https://geni.us/o5apBJ
Minolta 55mm Macro: https://geni.us/waAP
NiSi V5 Pro square filter system: https://geni.us/oJUEfA
NiSi 100x150mm 3 stop GND filter: https://geni.us/Wjuw
NiSi 100×100 7 stop ND filter: https://geni.us/lEHP3A
NiSi Circular UV Filter: https://geni.us/5wLa5s
NiSi Circular Polarizing Filter (included in filter kit)
Lowepro S&F Filter Pouch 100: https://geni.us/PdmsRjy
Manfrotto 190go! tripod: https://geni.us/TROWFqY
Lenspen Hurricane Blower
Lenspen – lens cleaner with dust removal brush
Rain Covers (these things are awesome) – https://geni.us/N85cr
My Video Gear:
Canon M50 – vlogging camera: https://geni.us/m94fw
Zhiyun Crane v2 – gimbal: https://geni.us/Nabn5Dh
Pergear gimbal tripod: https://geni.us/0oVr
Rode VideoMicro with wind muff: https://geni.us/X0Lg
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Location: Royal Botanical Gardens, Burlington, Ontario, Canada
Music:
Worth The While by Kata
Same Old Road by Ten Towers feat. Judith Rindeskog
#landscapephotography #photography
Beautiful shots there, lovely gardens or park
Great video as always. BTW love the new look.
Beautiful images from you and the featured photographers! 🙂
Great video Rachel, love the long lens shots of trees in bloom
Great video. Congrats Brian and company for the great images.
Spring with birds singing brings joy, but this hummingbird in those fragile blooms was magical. Thank you Rachel for sharing your amazing video and photographs with wonderful composions, all captured in such short time. Images of other photographers you have selected are breathtaking. Bravo to all of you.
Cool post, Rachel. Trees in bloom can be more difficult than one would think — field of view is key. I recently tried a blossoming peach orchard — compressed scene, as you did, w/tele. Used macro. Then turned to focus stacking and zoom during slow exposure for effect. Lens twist for induced blur. Fish-eye made for a different shot as well. Gotta be lucky to get a humming bird in the wild — patience and positioning in one spot works (sometimes).
Hello Rachel,
Beautiful images! Love your artistic touch. ❤ Can’t wait to see the apple trees bloom, here in Quebec, it’s late.
Great job. Picture with the bench is amazing
One trick you might want to try for macro of those leafs on those trees and shoot wide and shoot in 4k and just move the camera or focus ring. Shoot 4k at 30 fames. Now you can extract a jpeg from the video. Its not raw but it works really good for small things that are moving fast.
Beautiful images! Absolutely love, love, love the one of the tree with the bench in the background.
How do post on instagram so you see it. This is all new to me.
Great imagery, but that music, aaaaghh…. feels like I am at a Lilith Fair Concert.
Nice job…..love your music choice. Speed Vlogging 😁😁😁😁
Some lovely captures! Got out to trail along the Grand River in Glen Morris and found trout lilies, Dutchman’s breeches, Bloodroots, Siberian squills, trillium, and Coltsfoot. And I use my 70-300 to take a good many of my flower photos. I’m not on Instagram, but perhaps I will set up an account. Thank you for taking us along on your photography outings!
Nice vid!
Amazing results in such a short time, the final image with the beam of light was exceptional.
I love very beautiful flowers of nature of world. Naturally, your great shot. Today, spring around the world .👌👍 Thank! Rachel.
Your hair looks awesome
Lovely Rachel ….. the Hummingbirds brought back memories !! ❤
Fantastic images Rachel! I will try to go there again on weekend.
I am drawn to your channel by the masterful way you compose your images. It is impressive how you make so many great images while walking through the neighborhood park(s).
spring is beautiful with the new blossom nearly as good as autumn
Hi Rachel, I really liked the tree shot at 7.12 min. The tree really stood out proudly and majestic. Some great shots also from people sending photos in. Super Images. Great to see your smiling face and passion for photography, as always. Take Care.x
great as always rachel and a well deserved star image. great selection of shots and a very nice relaxing video. 🙂
Love autumn and spring. Great shots seperating the blossoms from the background.
Rachel, I see you have a Minolta 55mm macro. Great lens 🙂 Is that the more modern AF version you see advertised for use with Sony cameras or is it the old manual lens for the older film cameras? I have an old Minolta SRT film camera with a number of different lenses, but I’m looking at a couple of long primes at the moment, a 200mm f/3.5 and a 300mm f/5.5. Nice looking lenses and in good condition. Good thing with the Minolta lenses is you can get adapters to use your lenses with all different cameras, so I’ll be picking up a couple for my Pentax and Nikon cameras. The wide angle lenses in the Minolta range are great for astropics. They’re sharp as right across the FoV, even wide open. But, they can be hard to get.
Great shots of the cherry trees and blossoms. I lived in Japan for 3 years, they are revered there. The girth on that one tree was huge! Thanks so much for sharing, and how kind you are for commenting on others work. You’ve got me hooked as a subscriber now! 😁
I once had to do a macro challenge as well but didn’t have any macro lens so I also used the telephoto =p
I’m curious.. now that you have given up uploading to stock agencies, what do you do with your images? Do you have another outlet for selling them or do you just keep them for yourself?
Beautiful video as always! The tree and the bench is my favorite!!!
Very beautiful and inspiring. I live in Portland Oregon that has very wonderful flora and fauna. Spring is lovely here. Need to try and use my telephoto zoom and see what I come up with. Thanks for the stimulating video!
Great captures for such a short period of time! I really like the one of the large tree and the bench to the left. It calls to you “come, sit and relax”! Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful setting for a photo shoot…another great lesson…Thanks!
wow..wow..great shots,very artistic .looks like Chinese water color painting,well done Rachel.
Enjoyed the video Rachel.
Hi Rachel ! What gorgeous flowers ! And I take pictures of how many times I see a beautiful landscape or flowers of any kind.
I wish you a wonderful day !
I’m happy to have found you ! ♡♥♡♥♡♥
I’ve determined that catching humming birds with a 100mm screw drive lens on a D7000 is an exercise in futility ;-D
I do have a card full of weirdness to go through, if anything pops I’ll put your hashtag on it.
Did good Rachel, lovely images thank you for posting!
The 300mm worked really well. I just had half a batch of bokeh/selective focus images of bluebells rejected for being "out of focus" ! I would upload more to Shutterstock but I just dont have to time to argue with the the AI bot that inspects the images and upload everything TWICE lol. Like this one; it is obvious what the main subject is and that it is in focus.
https://www.istockphoto.com/gb/photo/one-white-flower-amongst-bluebells-gm1148515599-310184462
All images are good and for sale on iStock btw 🙂
This inspired me a lot. It is so easy to walk up "close and personal" with joy of brave spring blossoming. Instead of accepting the childhood feeling of drowning in it when it is NOT isolated but rather being overwhelming happiness.
I have to try that with the trees.
Good stuff, but really need to deep-6 the music….jeez.
Thank you so much, that was most enjoyable…..
Welcome back! And as always, great to see you and your vlog again. Yes, Spring is finally here! 🙌🏼
Gorgeous images!! Especially considering you have time constraints, which can get in the way of creativity (at least for me it can).
just you and I am learning – Thanks
Absolutely breathtaking photos Rachel. Love them all. Also the pics you shared from other photographers were amazing!
I really liked your image with the park bench. Very well done.
Great! With a flash would be bit easier