Hello! Today's article is a bit more personal, less technical. It will be talking about nature photography - which is my main style of photography. It is the one type I practise the most.
It's what got me into photography. From the very beginning - I started out with clicking pictures of flowers and plants in my garden. It built upon my passion for photography as I kept on clicking and clicking. It went well with my other interests as well, such as hiking. I would get to go out a lot and click many pictures. It was my way of spending my time capturing moments I could remember. Most of the photos I click have a certain story behind them that only I know fully about in detail. I like to stare at a picture and get lost, reliving the story and memories behind time.
I have learned many things as a nature enthusiast and photographer. One of them is patience. Patience is key while photographing something as beautiful and delicate such as nature. Take the photo of the flower above for example. The photograph above is only lit by sunlight, no other secondary lights. It is fully natural unedited lighting. I stood there for quite a while, waiting for the right timing, adjusting the lighting settings on my camera, positioning it in such a way that I could achieve my goal for this photograph and match the vision in my head. That's what one might encounter while trying to capture a bit of nature.
Another would be the focus on the subject. It is something I as a photographer struggle with. The intention behind a photograph should be very clear. You should know what you want the viewer to see, to focus on. The emotion that it should provoke should be clear. In more technical terms, one should know where to position the camera and what the main focus should be on. The person behind the camera should know what the picture is mainly all about, what object they are trying to capture and what should be blurred out. It's something I'm learning along the way on this journey of mine.
Respecting the environment I am capturing is also a very important thing I keep in mind. I never want to harm the nature around me. I also make sure to leave a place just like how I found it. When I go on hikes, I always bring all my trash back home; I never leave it there. Never harm anything we capture as photographers. The flowers, the animals, the ecosystem, our surroundings in general. I think it's a quite basic rule or ethic all of us photographers should follow.
That's all. Thanks for checking out this article! My next one will be coming out on the 1st of September, which will go into my experience with photographing food.
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