How To Be A Professional Tree Photographer

By George Dodson


Trees look more beautiful in autumn season. But is it possible to wait until autumn? Certainly not!

What you can take for your photography

What kind of lenses do you want to use? It depends upon totally up to you. The lenses vary from wide angle to shorter telephotos. You are free to use compact camera also. In dense forest light is not sufficient all time. So, it is better to take a hardy trivet. If you are going for a long travel you should take a bag that has multiple pockets and enough space so that you can take all the essential things with you.

Woods are your friends

You can get trees easily near by us like our garden, beside the roads etc. The tree beside your house cannot be a good object at all. You must go outside for better snaps. Before dragging your tripod please check is the garden or forest is suitable for using tripod or not. 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.

Select a suitable time

As highly contrasting light is not good for photography you should choice late morning or afternoon for tree photography. Without some special case a cloudy day is not preferable for photography at all.

Add texture and select the proper pattern

If you want to work with a single tree I suggest you to go as close as possible. You should focus the trunk and at the same tilt up to get a view with some texture.

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

In a clear blue sky it is good to look for canopy and leaves of tree. The contrasting ability between blue and green is pretty good. So, you can go for more details in leaves. Please don,t take a snap of chewed leaves that is affected by the bugs. If you need more detailed snaps, I suggest you to take coupling rings or an extension tube on double lenses but in case of closer photography use a 100 mm lens.

If you use thicker leaves for photography, they will not shine and if you use leaves of the same structure your works look duplicative.




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