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How to take better flower photographs
May 24, 2021
Polina Plotnikova creates beautiful, often painterly, flower portraits and still-life studies. Here she talks to Tracy Calder about the magic of previsualisation and the joy of working in a studio
It’s already been a long day for Polina Plotnikova by the time we sit down to chat over Zoom. The award-winning photographer was recently invited to join the assessment team at the Royal Photographic Society and has spent much of the day learning how to grade visual art panels.
‘It’s very different from all of my previous experience of judging,’ she smiles. Polina is very much in demand and looking at her beautiful, perfectly executed flower photography it’s easy to see why.
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When you re buying a camera with interchangeable lenses, you re also buying into a lens system. For many, that means optics from the same manufacturer as your camera, supplemented via third parties. The L-Mount mirrorless system is a bit different while it was started by Leica alone, it s been joined by Panasonic and Sigma. Together, the three make up the L-Mount Alliance.
This brand diversity has already delivered some niche cameras that you won t find for other systems. The Leica SL2 is pure German engineering, with stunning industrial design to match, while the Sigma fp is the absolute smallest full-frame mirrorless camera out there. Panasonic has the mainstream covered with crowd-pleasing S5, and video pros can look to the S1H and roll video at 6K quality.