by Dotti
Our guest today is Roxi Hardegree, a longtime follower at FOL and a person with a passion for photography. Roxi practices all kinds of photography, still life, nature, random things that catch her eye but her favorite challenge is capturing life as it happens.
I would like to introduce a way of
shooting photographs that is not very common. It’s referred to as “shooting
through”and is especially effective for flowers.
First, identify your main
subject. Position yourself so some flowers will be
partially in front of your subject but not totally obscuring it. If you prefer to use auto focus you may
need to reposition yourself carefully otherwise manual focus is the best
choice.
The closer you get, the more blur
you’ll get. The more distance between your
foreground and subject, the more blur you will have. This can also be
controlled by your camera settings. You don't necessarily need to have a small
aperture like you might think. Most of the time I have my camera set to
aperture priority mode so it's easy to adjust. Personally, for flowers I like there to be a recognizable amount of the flower in the blurry foreground.
These were shot with my 100mm Macro.
An example of one that didn't turn out
so good. Not enough blur left me with too much 'distraction' in the image.
ISO100, 100mm, f/4, 1/125
Sometimes it’s just nice to have those
creative blurs of colors.
ISO100, 100mm, f/4.0, 1/500
ISO100, 100mm, f/8.0, 1/60
These shots were done using a 70-300
lens.
ISO 800, 300mm, f/11, 1/1000
ISO100, 190mm, f/5.6, 1/250
It would have been better if Miss Lily
had faced me…
ISO200, 180mm, f/5.6 1/350
And one more daisy shot.
ISO100, 100mm, f/4.5, 1/250
If you don't have flower beds to shoot,
this would work just as well indoors with flowers in several vases, a backdrop,
and a little creativity. You just might be surprised at what shows up on your
camera.
This technique is so fun to experiment
with and can yield some interesting results. Perhaps I should put myself out in
the flowers. I could use a little blur over my wrinkles.
14 comments:
If there are any wrinkles there, they measure your time outdoors being creative! This is something I have never even heard of and I can't wait to try! The images are lovely, but its also so fun to learn a new way to play! Thank you, and come visit often💜
That was a heart at the end. I don't know why it became question marks!
Beautiful photos Roxi! Thank you for joining us today. I can't wait to try shooting through.
Such a coincidence - I just read an article about this just this weekend. It looks like it will be fun to try, you certainly have some beautiful results! Thanks for being our guest today.
It's always fun to learn a new way of looking at things and when it involves flower photography, it's even better! Beautiful photos, Roxi! Thank you so much for being our guest today.
Oh what a fun post and like Dotti, I am always up for new ways to capture flowers in my garden. Thanks for this and for being our guest today!!
roxi what a great tip! I love how shooting through changes the perspective and puts the subject in context with the rest of the surrounding! can't wait to give this a try!
So happy to see Roxi featured here! Beautiful shots!
This looks like a lot of fun, especially since it is involving flowers, my favorite subject! Can't wait to give it a try! Thanks so much for being our guest today, Roxi!
Thank you for sharing this technique. I can't wait to give it a try. Your images are beautiful!
Gosh, you shown me two things today that I never knew Roxi , thank you ! I will give this technique a try , it's wonderful :)
What an interesting technique.....so glad to see Roxi featured here and I'll definitely be playing with the shoot through!
Thanks gals! It's always fun to share your passion and hopefully be an inspiration whether it's to one or many. Thanks for having me.
Awesome to see Roxi featured, she is so talented. I enjoyed learning about "Shooting Throught".
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