MACRO TOY PHOTOS
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Photographing toys can be lots of fun. You will learn a lot of things while practicing it. As you are in control of everything, you will not only learn about composition and lighting, you will also acquire some skills of staging and story telling. You don’t need sophisticated equipment to achieve great results. You can do wonders with natural light and a point and shoot camera with a macro option. It all really lays on your imagination and of course your “models”. All you need to do is to grab a toy , a camera and to just have fun. Here are some tips to help you get started with toy photography. Make Them Look Big Since you are photographing tiny objects, it will be more interesting to give those toys a human dimension and to make them seem bigger than their actual size. In order to achieve such an effect, you can use the simple technique of getting close to your subject as much as possible to fill the frame with it and to take the photo from a low angle to give it that ant’s eye view effect. You can also place your toys in an environment that would help in making them look bigger. For example, you can place them inside a miniature scale model of a building, or a doll house. Tell a Story Taking simple direct shots of your toys is not as interesting as playing the role of a film director and creating a whole scene where the toys are your actors. It might be hard at the beginning but once you start letting your imagination loose, you won’t be able to stop. A good way to start is by trying to recreate a scene you encounter in your everyday life. After that you can move to the recreation of a movie scene, or the representation of an idiom. Once you grow comfortable with staging and story telling, you will begin innovating and creating fresh and new ideas. + |
{PHOTO} PORTRAITS
Shooting portraits is a really important skill to have as a photographer.The key thing when you're photographing a person is to help them be relaxed so that they appear natural. You can achieve this in a number of ways. Hypnosis, narcotics and alcohol are not one of the ways. Portraits don't have to be formal, with people looking into the lens, so try to shoot people doing something if you can. If people are performing an action, they will be taking less notice of what you're doing. Another good trick is to get your subject engaged in conversation. If you have a person mid-sentence, they will not be as conscious of the way they are looking.
Focus can be key when you are shooting a portrait in which the subject's face is prominent. In this case make sure you focus on the eyes. If a subject's ears or nose are out of focus it's not really a big problem- most people viewing a picture of a person will look straight to their eyes- but if the eyes are slightly out of focus the image will seem odd. Portraits don't have to include the whole person; you can crop in and concentrate on one particular detail. This shows enough of the person without giving away the whole story and so preserves some mystery. Tips For Stunning Portraits
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