Tips To Be A Professional Tree Photographer

By George Dodson


You cannot wait for autumn to photograph the tree though trees look attractive in autumn.

Equipments of photography

You are free to use wide-angle to the shorter telephoto camera. Compact camera is also available for you. Please take a strong camera stand as you may get insufficient light in forest. It is important to take all essential materials with you when you are going for a long day tour. You can use a bag with huge space and many pockets that will ensure your essential things with you.

Woods are your friends

You can get trees easily near by us like our garden, beside the roads etc. If you want an extraordinary shot you should go for woods or local garden rather than your house tree. Though woods are good specimen for photography but you can not use tripod in all gardens or site. So at first you have to know about the place before carrying the tripod. If you want to take shots of a group of trees, it is better to take the entire view by stepping backward. You can also take a portion for artistic view.

You should go at proper time

As highly contrasting light is not good for photography you should choice late morning or afternoon for tree photography. It is not convenient to take photographs on a cloudy day though it is good for some special cases.

Go for textures and patterns

When you are at mid forest it is convenient to take close snap of a single tree. Go to the trunk and cover some texture in your photo range.

Including artificial things

Keep some artificially made objects like statues, benches etc in your coverage. But considering the color is very important.

Go to leaves

You should go for leaf and canopy area when the sky remains apparent and blue. You can go for fine points in veins as green contrast excellent versus blue. You should not take the photo of a bug chewed leaf. A 100 mm micro lenses are more convenient for extra zooming but when you deserve more detailed shots, you should use a coupling ring and an extension tube on two lenses.

Dont use thick leaves or leaves of the same pattern. For this your photo looks gloomy and repetitive.




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