Enjoy spring and take advantage of its beautiful light for your photos

It is not a professional photographer who will tell you the opposite: spring is a wonderful season for taking no less wonderful photos. However, it is essential to respect certain rules to prevent that the shooting turns into a disaster.

Ghislain Bruyère does particularly appreciate spring and its lighting which allows taking particularly nice pictures. It is also the wedding season, requiring the presence of a photographer to capture an unforgettable moment. Unfortunately, there are currently no ceremonies on the horizon at the time of writing these lines. We are in lock-down period and the pictures you can take will be in your garden or perhaps while strolling around during some authorised walk.

Light, the best friend but also the worst enemy of your springtime photos

It is not always the case, but when spring is hopefully sunny, we can only be happy of the bright light that the sun brings us. Unfortunately, this brightness is not always the photograph’s best friend, as he/she then needs to play hide-and-seek with the shadows which never fails to tarnish the subject. It is sometimes better to wait for some redeeming clouds that will attenuate the virulence of the light so that you can get an optimal shot.

You will play with this same light during a walk in the woods, when it passes through the branches from the treetops, to get a photographic result which we can describe as phantasmagoric.

But too much light can also – and this is particularly true when you use non-professional equipment, thinking here of a smartphone – ruin the good balance of a picture. Too bright or, on the contrary too dark, it won’t be as pleasant to look at as the real scenery. Many cameras – even on smartphones – allow today to compensate the exposure to alleviate this problem faced by many professional photographers. Using an app like Snapseed will allow you get the perfect result.

The background of a photo is (almost) as important as its subject

Whatever your objective, taking a portrait or a picture of a flower, it is important to sublimate your subject by giving it the priority on your photo. To achieve this, it is important that the background is uniform. Don’t hesitate to change the angle of your shot so that no external elements affect your photo by attracting the eye on it and away from your subject. You can also work with various effects, such as a blurred background, which will allows you as well to fully focus on the subject of your shot. Yet another solution is to choose the close-up which will avoid completely being interested in anything else than the face or flower that you have selected.

Of course, this will not work if you want to immortalise a landscape. You will then seek to capture the immensity of what you see, in particular by using a wide-angle lens (some high-end smartphones have it, and the feature is automatically on as soon as you a select the ‘landscape’ mode on the app). You will then be able to capture as much of this springtime light as possible to make your photo captivating.

The macrophotography or the art of hunting

Have you ever imagined the treasures concealed in your garden during spring? Birth of flowers and other shrubs, insects and other exciting critters. You have there endless subjects for your photography. To get the best result, opt for the ‘macro’ mode on your smartphone or simply for a macro lens if you are lucky enough to use a SLR camera. You will then have the opportunity to get really close to your subject and give it the full surface of your photo, to get to some details which perhaps you may not see with the naked eye.

Well, these are just a few tips for enjoying spring by letting your photo creativity explode, but no doubt that they will allow many to unveil their inner soul of a photographer, and share the passion that drives us all on each mission we are called upon.

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