Flowers - Samsung Digital Camera Pocket Manual

SCENICS & NATURE

FLOWERS

Why not go on your own garden safari in search of
delicate blooms and bright summer colour
There are few more beautiful subjects
than flowers, whether they are from your
own garden or elsewhere. From close in
macro shots of fine details or abstracts, to
an individual flower head cropped in tight,
to wide-angle shots of great swathes of
colourful flowers in a field all bobbing in a
gentle breeze. Use interesting angles and
shapes in the pictures, contrast colours
together – even using the cobalt blue sky,
getting down low and shooting up with your
wide-angle lens. Lastly, you can even pop
out on cloudy, overcast days as there is less
contrast in pictures.
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Treat the centre of the flower as the flower's 'eye', and use this as your
focus point – unless you want something more abstract.
DON'T FORGET: THE WIND
Flowers are affected by even the slightest breeze, so switch to 'S'
(shutter-priority mode) and set a value of 1/320 or above.
THE POCKET GUIDE TO THE SAMSUNG NX
Use Portrait Scene mode
and a telephoto lens at
200mm to distance a flower
from its surroundings and
turn backgrounds soft and
blurry.
1/60sec 1/500sec
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