On Issuu you can find a free e-book on nature photography. Guess if you can read the online when it will now be some rainy days. You will have some hours of pleasant reading. You will probably find more reading if you look. Pleasant reading.
When I am out and shooting in nature so I usually try to find a focus that I can concentrate on. One day I was out and took a long trip in Tyresta (english version) . Today’s focus had to be fungi and they do adapt to their environment and weather conditions. I think that is a focus i am getting some better pictures.
The first image was a picture of some Agaricales as I saw that photograph from underneath so that I had a backlight. That was also the case that I got some mushrooms underside.
I had to limit myself so that I focus on a particular type of images which allows me to develop precisely the knowledge and thoughts on how my pictures should be. I just took with me my Canon 50m: 1.8 lens, which I find increasingly better and better. Something that struck me directly is that I would like a flash that could provide an exciting light. More recently i have taken some nice pictures with LEDs. It would be interesting to see what they themselves could do.
The next picture was a few brittle, glassy small fungi who stuck up in a colony. Here it is important to have a slow shutter speed so that I get good color despite the poor light. Here you can have with you a bag of beans or use the terrain or something so the camera is stable and then put the camera on self-timer so you avoid camera shake.
Finally I found a lone mushroom next to a pine tree that I framed in with the surrounding terrain, and choose a relatively short depth of field to highlight the subject. The sharp benches are also in good contrast with the dark background. Also try to have a focus on something the next time you are out shooting. It need not even apply to natural photo. If you are shooting in town so maybe you can focus on one type of buildings or why not working on people. Think outside your usual photo and dare to give yourself a challenge. A different focus than you would normally have so you shoot a whole new type of images.
Even in nature photo, it is important to think through and plan your photos. The challenge is to compose the picture right, but also pick out things that disturb the picture if possible. To photograph is not to reproduce reality exactly as much as it is painting with light. If you look at the pictures here do it a lot if I take away or add branches branches. These can create diagonals or be disruptive to the image. In this context, consider what you want with your image.
Many macro photographs of water droplets are hardly dew if you now how to apply it. Remove with a pipette and drip water where you want it. 
It is as much in the photo to create an illusion or create a reality that is better suited for the feeling you want to convey. If you are dripping water everywhere maybe realism is challenged and the picture loses its value. So if you are going to change anything, think about how the audience sees your picture.
Of course you can also use reflectors or other aids to help you make the right motif highlighted. Typically, it is simple the best and a good mind to create the best pictures. If you feel that the picture is cleaner if you delete or invest in something that does. Chainsaw, I think you should leave home and think about the right of public access, the Swedish “Allemansrätten”.
