Samsung Digital Camera, EXS30NB manual Flowers, DON’T Forget the Wind

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SCENICS & NATURE

THE POCKET GUIDE TO THE SAMSUNG NX

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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Use Portrait Scene mode

and a telephoto lens at77 200mm to distance a flower

from its surroundings and turn backgrounds soft and blurry.

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

1/60sec1/500sec

Flowers are affected by even the slightest breeze, so switch to ‘S’ (shutter-priority mode) and set a value of 1/320 or above.

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