Spring is a lovely time to be photographing the great outdoors, as plants are beginning to spring back into life.
You can capture images of buds turning into flowers such as snowdrops, crocus, daffodils; trees with new leaf growth or buds -there is plenty around to photograph.
5 ideas for using Spring photos in your business in Spring?
1. Spring-clean your stock photos, and plan for a new set of images or both your staff and products, if appropriate. Take photos outside with a backdrop that shows the season.
2. As Mother’s Day falls during the month of March, you could have a special ‘mother’s day’ photoshoots? Or, if you’re not a mum but have animals, a ‘fur-baby mother’s day’ photoshoot.
3. Have a photoshoot of your products around the idea of Spring but also preparing for Easter too. Photograph products with Spring flowers; with decorated eggs; with cuddly bunnies and chicks. Focus on pastels and Spring greens, yellows and pinks.
4. Create or create with your photographer, a set of images that can be used for blogs and social media posts written during this month. Alternatively take photos on your mobile for your social media. You can link them to subjects, such as: New growth & Fresh starts for business
- Before and after Spring cleaning photos of your premises.
- If you write a daily ‘diary blog’ photograph new bulbs as they develop from just a green shoot or seedling to a flower.
- Take a weekly or daily photo of the same part of your garden to show the changes during Spring.
5.If your business is linked to flowers or gardening, take a range of photos showing ‘how to’ do something that your clients want to understand.
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Where possible engage a professional photographer to provide you with your own stock images, or if you want to take images to print rather than just use online – use a camera.
Only use a mobile phone for social media posts.
Some tips for taking photos on your mobile for social media
1. If you want good clarity and a photo in perfect focus, use two hands rather than hold and shoot with one.
The problems using just one hand;
- Sometimes people push the phone away from them as they take the image
- Holding the phone with just one hand often has the effect of making them move too quickly
Both of these things can affect clarity of focus.
2. Check what else is in the background as you take the photo, so there’s nothing to detract from what you want people to focus on.
If you can, physically bend down at plant level, so that you can get a close up of the flower with the other plants behind them. Tap on the image of the flower you want to stand out, then take the photo.
3. Take close-ups of different parts of the plants/flowers; petals, stamens, buds etc.
4. Photo across a swathe of snowdrops or crocus
5. Try to capture bees and other insects in your photos too.
If you’re interested in a Spring themed photoshoot, then please contact me on: neil@moore-photographics.com
