How to shoot butterflies to look good, and what are the shooting skills?

Butterflies are beautiful insects, and there are thousands of butterflies in the world, so the field of subject matter for photographers is almost limitless. The wings of butterflies often have an unusually bright color, or a combination of many colors. In order to photograph butterflies, it takes the right equipment and a lot of patience.

1. Zoom Show Details Butterflies are small in size, so to maximize their beauty without losing a single detail, you'll need a macro lens or a zoom with a macro mode. The lens with a focal length of 100 mm is suitable for outdoor shooting. Mount the camera on a tripod and use a wide aperture (f

Blur the background. 2. Shooting Creativity**For example, if a butterfly lands on your friend, please don't miss this moment. To capture a butterfly on someone's hand, you can use a macro lens or even a standard lens. Use f

The aperture keeps the background blurry and keeps the lens details in focus.

High-angle overhead shot of butterflies.

This is an overhead shot. The wings of the butterfly resting on the flower show a complete body form, and the background of the flower makes the butterfly more vivid.

3. Macro photography only uses a macro lens (usually 50-100

mm) to achieve maximum similarity. Use the manual setting, as the autofocus is usually not fast enough to photograph butterflies, use a tripod to hold the camera in place. Wait until the butterfly lands on the flower, don't miss the moment of this picture.

Close-up of the butterfly.

The background color is harmonious and natural with the color of the butterfly wings, and it also brings out the texture and beauty of the butterfly wings.

4. Photographing butterflies in motionShooting butterflies in motion**. The premise is to find the flowers that the butterflies like and point the camera at the area. Use a wide aperture (f

and short shutter speeds (e.g. 1 1600 seconds). If possible, use continuous shooting, as butterfly movements are often unavoidable. Shoot as many ** as you can, and thus remove the less than ideal**.

5. Indoor shootingIf you want to shoot a butterfly in the room, please use a box with air holes. Carefully bring the butterfly to the room. When shooting, you can use studio lighting or natural light. A butterfly on a white background. Use a macro lens and f

16 or f 32 aperture.

When photographing butterflies, it's important to be patient. Sometimes a good shot has to wait for hours, keeping the camera ready is the only way to photograph a butterfly**.

You can use a macro lens to better capture the posture of the butterfly. You can choose a beautiful flower as a background, set up a camera on the side, and wait for the butterfly to rest on the flower, and then you can take a photo.

For the shooting of butterflies, you can shoot a single still shot or take a dynamic picture, after all, butterflies have to move to look good. Of course, you can also shoot a group of butterflies dancing among the flowers, and such a scene can be very meaningful to record with the camera.

Butterflies often appear as material in the photographer's lens, whether as a protagonist or a supporting role, butterflies can make ** full of life.

1.Do you know butterflies?

Personally, I think that no matter how superb the photography skills are, you need to understand the habits of the subject matter before you can get twice the result with half the effort. Butterflies are cold-lead blood-only animals and their mobility decreases below 22°C, so it is easy to see them on sunny days, especially from June to August. Generally speaking, 9 to 11 a.m. and 2 to 4 p.m. in spring and summer are the most active times for butterflies.

2.The basic secret is patience

Many people also say that butterflies are too active, it is not easy to photograph them, and I very much agree, plus butterflies, like other insects and birds, are afraid of people, in order not to startle the snake, just like this work, you need to use a long focal length lens to shoot, generally 200mm to 400mm lens is ideal, and tripods are also necessary. There is also a close-up circle, such as the Stander C004 close-up circle. Don't worry about not being able to focus due to the close shooting distance.

And keep a low profile when shooting, too much action will scare them away. During the shoot, if the butterfly suddenly flies away, it is not a big deal, because the butterfly may soon return to its original position, which is the usual habit of butterflies, as long as we can be patient.

3.Beauty and texture should be clearly presented

Many times, we overlook the important point when photographing butterflies, which is to keep the butterflies in the photos clear and look as they should. Beauty and texture. Keeping the aperture between f and f 8 is a good way to reduce the aperture and increase the depth of field, which can reduce the embarrassment of the butterfly seeing the beginning and the end, and make the background moderately blurred.

In addition, the focus should be on the head of the butterfly first, and as long as you choose the shooting angle carefully, it is not difficult to keep the butterfly's head and wings in focus at the same time.

Butterflies are beautiful flying animals, do you want to know how to use a camera to photograph a flying butterfly? Let me answer for you below, I hope it can help you!

Camera (it is recommended to choose a DSLR camera with a shutter continuous shooting, fast grip and sensitive digging of more than 5 times per second).

1. Choose the appropriate phase segment nuclear machine.

First of all, there are still certain requirements for equipment for shooting flying butterflies'。Small digital, card players, and mobile phones are known for their slow focusing, which makes it difficult to shoot and has a low success rate, so it is recommended to choose a DSLR camera with a shutter continuous shooting speed of more than 5 times per second.

2. Choose a good lens.

It is best to choose a medium telephoto prime lens. The medium telephoto can shoot from a long distance and has less interference with butterflies, such as 180 micro, etc. The 300mm f mm and 500mm camera lenses are also great for photographing butterflies in flight.

3. Pay attention to the way you shoot.

Both autofocus and locked-focus manual focus can be used to shoot the airplane version, but the specific operation needs to be focused on depending on the environment.

Butterflies can be photographed using the manual focus method: fix the camera on a tripod, focus on the vicinity of the flower, lock the focal length, and press the shutter release cable to shoot continuously at high speed after the butterfly flies closer; The shutter speed is set between 1 800 and 1 1250 seconds, and the butterfly wings can maintain a certain dynamic, and the lens is suitable for telephoto.

Control the shutter speed.

It is best to keep the shutter speed between 1 500 and 1 1250 seconds, so that the main body such as the head of the eyes is clear, but the tips of the wings are indistinct, and the movement is stronger; Remember that it's best to keep your eyes clear.

Set the ISO reasonably.

The ISO setting should not be too high, taking Canon's 50D-70D as an example, it is best not to exceed 400

Store at any time.

When the light is complicated, it is best to save it in RAW format for later adjustment.

Butterfly Lighting Butterfly lighting, commonly known as butterfly light, is a special way of using light in portrait photography.

In a sense, butterfly light is an oblique top light, and it is also a way to use light for front light or smooth light.

The method of lighting is more suitable for Westerners and people with distinct bones.

The usual lighting method of butterfly light is that the main light source is above the optical axis of the lens, that is, directly in front of the subject's face, and is projected to the face of the character from top to bottom at 45°, projecting a shadow under the nose, like a butterfly, so that the face of the character brings a certain sense of layering.

Butterfly light is mostly used to represent women, and when this light hits the model's face, the most obvious sign is that it creates a butterfly-like shadow under the nose.