From the course: Photography 101: Shooting Macros and Close-Ups
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Addressing challenges of shooting outdoors
From the course: Photography 101: Shooting Macros and Close-Ups
Addressing challenges of shooting outdoors
So here we are in the backyard, and I found some beautiful flowers that I want to take a picture of. They're really colorful, bright orange and yellow and some nice green leaves in the background. But I've got a couple of challenges that I'm going to need to overcome. The first one is the sun, I'm in direct sun here. And that direct sunlight, isn't going to do you any favors for your flower pictures. You’re going to have hard shadows on them, and those just aren't going to be pretty. The second problem that I have is the wind. The wind's blowing pretty hard out here to day, and so those flowers are going to be flapping around like crazy. And that doesn't make shooting them any easier at all. So those are the two challenges that I need to somehow overcome. But before I start looking for solutions to that, I want to figure out how to set my camera down because, frankly, holding the camera with one hand, while diffusing light with a diffusion panel in the second hand and then some…
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