How to photograph Wildflowers (Top Tips) | Flower Photography
How to photograph Wildflowers (Top Tips) | Flower Photography
I show how to photograph Wildflowers and give top tips on photographing wild flowers in this Flora Photography video. As the weather is idea for wild Spring flowers, I get out and give you some photography tips on how to get some great photos of wildflowers using extension tubes. If you want to know how to take photos of wildflowers close up, and get better macro photographs of wild flowers and insects, then follow these top tips.
Thank you for watching. I hope you enjoy this video.
Links:
Liesl Huddleston’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6_-OFbgyvr4kXDrLYukqnA
Equipment:
Canon EOS 5D mk4
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L II USM
Canon EF 16-35mm f/4L IS USM
Canon EF 70-300mm f4-5.6L IS USM
Manfrotto MT055CXPRO4 Carbon Fibre Tripod
Manfrotto 804RC2 Mark II 3-Way Head
Lee 100mm Filter Kit
Lee Polariser
Lee Neutral Density Graduated Soft Filter Kit
Lee Neutral Density Graduated Hard Filter Kit
Sony a6500
Rode Rodelink Mic
Nice video John! To be honest flower photography is something I’ve never ever tried but you’ve certainly opened my eyes somewhat to the potential. Thanks for sharing 🙂
I loved your safety gear, that was good! Great video, and lovely images! Thank you.
Great video – thank you! I’ve just started photographing wild flowers with my Olympus EM10 MkII, some extension tubes and a 40-150mm lens. It’s handy cos the kit is quite small.
Thank you for your video. Very inspiring and you get your point over very well.
so funny with your costume lol
Another tip or two: Take an establishing shot along with closeups. That helps with identification later. I sometimes get back home with a closeup of flower parts and can’t identify the actual flower. For maximizing insect opportunity, going out early in the morning when it is cooler and damper helps a lot. Insects are less active and will stay still long enough to get good shots. I shoot primarily handheld and shoot bursts while slowly moving my body in and out to focus on the insect. These can later be focus stacked if the insect didn’t move to increase the area in focus. Lastly, a good light helps a lot with maximizing DOF. LED banks are cheap and are great to allow use of Fstops from F16-22 or so for insects.
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Fantastic tips but please, less waffle!
Flowers are my go to photographic subject….thumbs up for the info i ll keep it in mind for my channel 👍👍
Excellent video!! About fell off the chair when I saw your Protection Gear and face net!!!!! Hahahahaha
Not so good advice on the macro lens being only for close uos. For instance the canon f2.8 is known as a great portrait lens.
Hello Friends, I really hope you enjoy my video on photographing wildflowers. Thank you so much for watching.
Hi John. Great vid. I have been thinking about photographing the wild flowers this year so thanks very much for the fantastic tips. I will definitely be having a go at making one of your perspex wind breaks, what a brilliant idea. Love the rapeseed image. Seeing you with all your wild flower armor on made me laugh out loud. I didn’t realise photographing flowers was so dangerous 😀 great stuff 👍
What a lovely video, full of information which we can easily follow with many tips, your videos are always first class, always look forward to watching, and this was something different from your usual format, look forward to more, Regards.
Really enjoyed your video. It’s amazing how many wonderful things there are when you get up CLOSE!
Great video, John! So peaceful there, I kept rewatching parts of the video staring at everything in the background and wishing I was there, the scenery and buildings are so charming – very different than here. Thank you for the awesome shoutout, so kind of you. I loved all of the photos and tips, especially the one at 16:28, incredible! I’d love to get similar wildflower armor, but it’s too hot here for that kind of gear, I’ll just have to keep suffering the dangers haha! That was so funny, I showed my kids, they had a good laugh too.
Your growing mate. I have just done a bluebell video out this Sunday a two part video. Macro work is cool. Will have to meet up again over summer
Thanks so much for sharing!
You mentioned that you’d give Lisa Huddleson’s link. Where is that found?
Hi john have just come across your utube video verry good I have a tamron macro 90mm lens but struggle with
looking at thw way you do is good. I also have a canon 70.200 2.8 very good would that that work okay keep up
the good work.
Thoroughly enjoyable vlog John, thank you. Some lovely images and really useful tips. Not too sure about your ‘protective gear’ though! Lol. Atb
Great video with some very useful tips.
hi, john, have you ever used ring flash? I thought flashlight might be useful to stop motion blur of the subject.
Hi, the windbreak is an inspired idea – which can be expanded upon. I would have a frosted piece of perspex with me as a diffusor to use instead of or on top of the lid…
Do you do any focus stacking? Thanks for the tips and vlogs.
Right, John. I’m going to watch the rest of the video in a minute when I’ve just said what I need to say, because I’m sure it’s very good. However I’ve just reached ‘Tip No.2’ and there is already a problem here. Allow me to explain. You (rightly) suggest that getting down on the ground at the same eye level as the flower is a brilliant way to photograph them. However, I’m disabled, and cannot do this. Basically if I were to do this, I would never get back up again! LOL. Can you suggest a way of getting on the same level as the flower, without actually getting down on the ground, as myself, and I’m sure many others, would find this very hard, if not impossible to do. Please don’t misunderstand me, I’m not having a go at you. But thinking ‘outside the box’ is something I’ve become somewhat of an expert in.
Interesting but Obviously you don’t realise how important dandelions are to the bees