Plant photography for beginners and advanced - *fotowissen (2025)

The Plant photography for Beginner and advanced is one of the most soothing forms of Photography. We have time for nature and take photos to our heart's content of the Colours and forms of the plants and animals that live with you. What we do with the Camera I describe everything you can do in excerpts in this Introduction to plant photography:

Plant photography is great fun.

Pflanzenfotografie für Einsteiger und Fortgeschrittene

We find beautiful plants wherever we go. It may be the Blumenstrauß be on the sideboard, a thimble in the Gardena sunflower by the roadside or the flowers in one of the wild meadows that farmers are now replanting everywhere. We have our camera with us, possibly a Zoom lens, eine Fixed focal lengtha macro lens or macro interchangeable rings in your bag and look forward to photographing plants. The photo accessories are useful but not necessary:

Photo equipment for plant photography

The last time I photographed a wild meadow, I had a fixed lens attached to a Fuji X-100V and could get relatively close to the flowers. However, if I want to see into the small, then I need a small camera for my Smartphone / my Bridge camera one Makrovorsatz (2) or for the System camera one Macro intermediate ring (3). Enthusiastic macro photographers will probably even find a Macro lens (4), but don't feel bad if you don't have it with you on a trip. You can also take beautiful plant photos with very simple means.

Article with tips for macro photos and macro accessories

Plant photography with the smartphone

You can safely skip this paragraph if you always work with a Viewfinder camera go stalking. However, if you happen to see the plants in the sunlight on your bike tour, then you can at least have a macro attachment for your smartphone with you (e.g. in your wallet):

Even if you don't have a macro attachment, simply start your plant photography and enjoy the following tips:

Simple tips on plant photography for beginners and advanced photographers

• The best light doesn't come from behind, but from the side or even from the front. Of all places Gegenlicht can be very attractive for your shots (exposure compensation to plus).

Plant against the light.

• Go all the way get close to your plant motif. No: even closer. Photographing the meadow as a whole is completely uninteresting, but the individual plant shows the whole meadow in itself.
• Photograph the plant not in the centre of the picture, but from the centre. Feel free to crop your motif once.

• If it is windy, photograph your plant calmly in a Series of at least 5 - 10 photos so that one of the pictures is really sharp.
• Change the Focal length (on a smartphone with the wide angle, x1, x2), the aperture, the distance and position to the plant.
• Your chosen plant is small and lives close to the ground? You now have to look down very far and can use the flip-up display. If you don't have a flip-up display, use an angle finder or take photos by feel without looking through the viewfinder or at the display. In any case, take a series of photos and then check whether the photos meet your expectations. Otherwise, start again from the beginning... and have fun!

Please try to photograph only plants at the beginning. As a beginner, do not be tempted to capture insects. Moving subjects are difficult to photograph. I would like you to be motivated by your success. If it's windy outside, try a bunch of flowers by the window at home.

Peter Roskothen is a professional photographer, photo trainer and photojournalist - plant photography for beginners and advanced photographers

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