We’re delighted to reveal the names of the 25 talented photographers who won “AAP Magazine #25: B&W”
These amazing photographers come from 11 different countries. Their work reflects the large variety black and white photography can offer. Documentary, portrait, travel, street, wildlife, abstract and fine art are all represented in the winning portfolios.
Regardless of the genre of photography, the selected projects all have different approaches to the unifying theme of black and white.
The top 3 winners will be awarded $1,000.
All winners will have their work showcased on All About Photo Winners Gallery, and published in the printed issue of AAP Magazine #25 B&W.
You can find the results here . The next theme is Shapes !
More info: all-about-photo.com
“A cat at a window of a house in the old part of my hometown, Śrem.”
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Series: Back Roads “There is a sense of timelessness when I travel the back roads of America. Two-lane blacktops and meandering gravel roads are the capillaries that carry me to those places that modernity has mostly ignored.”
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Series ‘Light on the Pond’
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“Last year, during the lockdown period, I was only able to leave the house for limited times due to the Covid 19 pandemic, all I could do was take long walks in the secluded spots of the city. A beautiful bronze work of Spanish sculptor Daniel Pérez that I love was placed in one of such quiet places I walk on the coastline of Izmir. During one of my walks, I realized a visual interaction between the statue and a man walking along the coastal road and that reminded me of the exciting first date of a man and a woman who didn’t know each other.”
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“It’s often said that animals and children ‘steal the show’. Children instinctively evoke sympathy, compassion and a desire to protect them. From this understanding, I began this series about the children living under the occupation in Israel; An attempt to overcome the feeling of fear from the ’enemy’ by presenting the children, who pay the price of their childhood and to regain humanity to humanity.”
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Series: ‘Hearts of the Movement: The San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Freedom Day Parade: 1984-1990’
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“I took this photo using a drone, I tried to focus the attention on the shadow of the cyclist but also on the context of urban geometries in my city.”
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“As I was walking toward the Disney Concert Hall on Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles one afternoon, I came upon this gentleman standing motionless against the famous architecture designed by Frank Gehry. Dressed in a dark suit and stetson hat, the gentleman’s appearance and posture were a welcome return to the character of Sam Spade played by Humphrey Bogart in the 1941 American film noir The Maltese Falcon.”
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“Freediving teaches you to let go and surrender to nature, as it is counterproductive to tense up your body to fight the crushing pressure. Whatever nature throws at you, you learn to accept and ride with it. This is a shot of Pablo from Mexico, hanging on to the line as the ocean current sweeps across him during his FIM (Free Immersion Dive), a discipline where you dive using only your arms to pull down the line, and up.”
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Series: Ancient Basque In The Modern Day “This project is composed of scenes captured during winter carnival season in Basque Country. Through these photos, we see how the Basque people have preserved their pre-Christian traditions and ensured that they continue to thrive in the modern day. During the reign of Franco, such Basque traditions were outlawed entirely, as was the Basque language. Yet even through these hardships, the rural communities from villages such as Ituren, Zubieta, and Bielsa have carried their carnival traditions through the centuries.”
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“REGARD is a series of staged, controlled and collaborative self-portraits between my daughter and me. In each composed tableau, I both invite the viewers into a tender mundane scene and look back at them with the same expression I throw at the unwelcome examinations of my daughter from the eyes of strangers in the streets. The crux of what I am showing is that being a teenage girl with Down syndrome is, in many ways, a typical pubescent experience – and actually exists – despite the fact that a lot of mainstream media and entertainment may lead you to believe the opposite.”
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Series: California Dreaming “These photos are from my ongoing photo project, titled California Dreaming, which highlights the quirky, curious, diverse and distinct cultures of San Francisco and Los Angeles. My preference is to take candid and natural photos. The rare exception is when I ask permission to make portraiture. All of my street photos are taken during daylight and without using a flash because I prefer to be invisible and unnoticed by the subject(s). I am now using a full-frame mirrorless camera with a 35mm prime lens.”
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“A photo from my photo-series ‘Riverland’, which I started about 2 years ago while attending a workshop with Vanessa Winship and George Georgiou in the Indre region in France. It’s a series depicting various scenes - portraits, stills and landscapes - all taken in and around rivers and waters in the Indre region, and in southern France. With the series, I tried to evoke sentiments and feelings of a meandering river, while noting and drawing parallels to (my) life…”
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“While visiting Bangladesh, I went to a port on the river, near Dhaka Cities, where workers carried coal from a cargo ship. They carried the coal in the basket on their heads. Despite their hard work, and low pay, they were able to pose for me with a smile and a good mood.”
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SERIES: Wisest Generation Armed, Free and Unafraid. “From the series, the Wisest Generation. A photo documentary focuses on remarkable seniors in Detroit who have inspired us and have contributed to Detroit’s renaissance. Community organizers and catalysts for a stronger Detroit. Seniors Dorothy Aldridge and Harriet Saperstein led a group of young adults to explore the best of Detroit’s present and its past. I met with these two powerhouse women one afternoon to attend a compelling talk on Detroit’s Riverwalk. This image caught Dorothy in a pensive moment while conducting a tour of Detroit’s Belle Isle. Her shirt reads, ‘Unarmed Free and Unafraid.’” Dorothy Aldridge 71 with Harriet Saperstein 84. Community activists, historians.
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“Caption: A family takes a train toward Lviv as violence increases in Eastern Ukraine. The displacement of over four million refugees has been recorded at the start of the Russian invasion.”
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Series - True North “‘True North’ is a collection of images that feel aligned with who I am and what I find fascinating, mysterious and timeless. Photography is place and time, light and shadow and mindful seeking. I’m meant to be in that moment to find, create, learn and grow. Mary Oliver said it best in her poem: ‘Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.’”
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Series “The Stubborn Boys” fishermen in Gold Coast, Ghana. “While on a trip in Ghana I ventured down to the Cape Coast and visited the Anglo-Saxons dark past, aka the slave trade. After a few days of that, I wandered the streets of Cape Coast and down to the beach, where I found a narrow alleyway leading into a sheltered area on the beach ’the fisherman’s hangout’ were young men, some looked like young boys, young like they should be at school boys, not here. This group of males was referred to as ‘stubborn’ by people on the outside, yet they seem wholesome, chilling, joking, mass making/repairing fishing nets, sharpening fishing knives, having an afternoon nap and playing what seemed like high-stakes AGGRESSIVE card games. I was set, this was me for the next few hours.”
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KRAÏNA: I am the land “I am a descendent of immigrants who came to Canada from Ukraine in 1897. They were the backbone of the Canadian government’s economic expansion program aimed at settling Western Canada. A $10.00 filing fee bought them 160 acres of land – a dream come true. In KRAÏNA: I am the land I give form to an ‘imagined geography’ where time, history and identity are fluid concepts. My relationship to the land and the meaning that my life and work derive from it are captured in the images and coupled with an exploration of immigrant loss, shifting identity and trauma; issues of global significance as we face the largest refugee crisis since WWII with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This image was taken a stone’s throw from our family farm where members of my family rest in the neighboring cemetery.”
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Series; DAPIO “My daughter is 3. She came home once and told me about Dapio. Dapio appeared in her life about a year ago and has been with her ever since. My son, age 5, also seems to notice Dapio. Dapio plays with them on playgrounds, sits at the table or rides along on a bike with us. Only we adults do not see Dapio. Since I became a father, my permanent solitude and melancholia that had always accompanied me in my life seemed to have left me. With this project, I tried finding not only solitude and melancholia but Dapio as well.”
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Series: “Paper Procreation” “Creative endeavor often begins with paper. The novelist, playwright, and poet; the composer; the painter and sculptor—each commence with a blank sheet of paper. During Covid confinement, I also turned to paper for inspiration, seeking to metaphorically portray it spawning and nurturing creation, from ovulation and gestation to birth and fully formed progeny. In the process, I experienced how paper has a life force of its own—its own particular physics—that resists complete manipulation even as it remains malleable. Paper reams and splayed books insist on unfurling in their own way, and crumpled wads of paper insist on their own projectile designs—invariably more complex than one could ever engineer.”
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Series: “The Photographer’s House” “The series ‘The Photographer’s House’ shows the new Moholy-Nagy Master House in Dessau in the experimental style of the New Vision, the visual aesthetics of László Moholy-Nagy. Multiple exposures, negative reversal, solarization, light-dark patterns and photomontages are used to emphasize light nuances and provide a new view of the architecture of the Bauhaus.”
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Series: Roma “In the winter of 2017, together with journalist friend Magdalena Chodownik and photographer Vladimir Zivojinovic, I visited a Roma settlement in Kosice, Slovakia - Lunik IX. The settlement is located on the outskirts of the city and almost no one from the city ventures there. People are afraid of the stereotypical image of Roma, and for this reason, the settlement is surrounded by a mental wall making it a ghetto. Since then, I have been going back there from time to time to take more pictures, which may help bring this discriminated European minority closer to the public. The Roma are by far the most long-term discriminated against minority in the EU. Eighty percent of Roma in the EU still live below the poverty line in their country. Every third Rom lives in a building without running water, and every tenth in a building without electricity. Every fourth Roma child and every third Roma child lives in a household where they experienced hunger at least once in the previous month.” [European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, 2017]
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Series: Reflections In a Broken Window “The photographs in this short series are intensely menacing. Not because there is anything particularly menacing about the subjects of the photographs. Quite the opposite. The menacing quality instead is created by the unseen viewer. Just look into the eyes of the subjects of these photographs and you’ll see it, a look of fear and unease. These are the people being menaced, not the other way around, by a society that manufactures boogeymen to justify policies and practices that fence out, wall out, and do worse to those seen as different.”
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“THE WORLD AIN’T ENOUGH … (2009 – 2019) is about two brothers who live in the moment. No staging, no posing. Just pictures from real life: at home, at play, after school, at sporting events or when out shopping. Visual sociology of childhood and life is documented in a natural manner. The exultant joy that embraces the whole world and the abysmal sadness that seems to offer no escape – Oliver Raschka’s photographs of his sons touch us and stir the inner child living on within us. A father who is reliving parts of his childhood with his sons. Who reflects and knows in every second that these moments will be passing. Oliver Raschka shows the colorful and exciting first years of his sons in black and white. With great sensitivity and compassion, he portrays joy, intimacy, love, anger, sadness, rivalry and wild euphoria. The viewer participates in the rapid developments of the first years of the life of his two boys, and their brotherhood and takes part in the wild ride into puberty. The viewer is right in the midst of it and conquers the world alongside the kids. A book with the same title was published in 2020 via BUMMBUMMBOOKS, Cologne.”
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One may buy the most expensive photography gear, yet one can’t buy an eye for a good photo. Just like with any creative skill, imagination and a creative approach are key. However, while quality equipment certainly wouldn’t hurt, it’s really about knowing how to utilize the tools and functions already available in your hands. Some of the best photography hacks do exactly that: they teach you to use tools already available or easily accessible to achieve your best photo result.
Ironically, among the many great photography hacks are tips and tricks you may already know about. Perhaps you just forgot, or it’s something so basic that it simply never crossed your mind. However, plenty of photography tips can also be new, depending on how long you’ve been in the field. Whether you are looking for photography tips for beginners or want to hone your skills, you’re likely to leave this article with your creative juices flowing overboard and new ideas popping up!
One of the simplest smartphone photography tricks is this one. To create a reflective surface with your smartphone, place your phone’s screen at the bottom of the DSLR. This popular technique can make a distinguished appearance and feel in your photographs.
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Another quick photo frame hack. You can take stunning images with natural light from the setting sun and a few old, no-longer-usable picture frames.
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The Japanese word “bokeh” describes the blur in an image’s out-of-focus area. Cut out intriguing shapes like tiny circles or stars from black poster board. Use the poster board to cover the lens and try out various focal lengths.
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The majority of marbles are made of glass. However, photographing marbles differs from photographing other kinds of glass. This results from the marbles’ smooth, spherical surface, which tends to reflect a lot of light from its surroundings. With appropriate lighting and settings, your photos incorporating marbles will look absolutely phenomenal.
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You can create creepy yet amazing-looking pictures with just a few items. Just trust the process.
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This approach will help you produce more focused lighting in your photographs and consume an entire tube of Pringles in one sitting, so you’re sure to like it. Also, you may want to reduce the size of the container’s bottom opening so that a flash head can fit snugly through it.
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You can take some incredible photos using fairy lights. And the best bit is that they are really affordable! One of the best uses for fairy lights is as a foreground bokeh close to the camera. Such placement will give the light the appearance of fuzzy spots and thus sweeten your photograph. You can also use fairy lights to illuminate objects like a lightbulb or a Mason jar.
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A topic or object will appear larger the closer it is to the camera, especially when compared to a subject or object farther away. The same goes for making something appear smaller by keeping it further from the camera.
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If you have a spare pair of reading glasses lying around, try creating a magnifying effect by holding the glasses in front of the lens. It can get you a similar result to lens ball photography without the financial outlay.
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You might have seen this one on YouTube. Plenty of video tutorials show how you can equip your glass coffee table to create outstanding photos. You can place anything you wish on the tabletop, perhaps some tealights, leaves, or sand, and ask your model to lay under the table. While it may seem simple, shooting through the glass this way can bring an entirely new layer of depth to your image.
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Set up your camera on a tripod and take images every 10-20 seconds or as required until you have captured every part of the scene unobstructed. The more shots you have of the scene unobstructed, the better.
Open Photoshop and select File > Scripts > Statistics.
Set it to “Median.”
Open all the files you want to use.
If it was not shot on a stable tripod and the images do not line up perfectly, select “Auto-Align.” Note that this only works for solid structures. If a tree/object has moved because of wind, this won’t help.
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Suppose you don’t have the chance to shoot in a studio or cannot locate the ideal location. In that case, your TV makes a wonderful prop to create an impressive background. Simply select the desired photo, put it on the TV, and hit the shutter. The TV is one of many fantastic photography accessories that might provide an excellent background for portrait shots. If you’re photographing products, go with something smaller, like your computer monitor.
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In design, the positioning of visual components so they align in a composition is known as alignment. Both in design and photography, alignment is utilized to arrange elements, group them, provide balance, establish relationships between photo components, and produce a distinct result.
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To create a sparkling ring of fire, you will need a few things: wire, sparklers, and tape. This quick photography hack will surely provide you with some fascinating results. But hey, be careful with the sparklers and come up with something other than your hands to hold the ring!
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Want to take underwater pictures but don’t want to spend money on expensive or, worse yet, cheap housing that leaks? Simply put your smartphone in a cup made of clear plastic or glass and submerge it. For larger cameras, a vase or fish tank can be used. Get pictures of your subject in the bathtub or pool by simply lowering the lens below the water’s surface. But be careful not to drop the cup or fish tank, or whatever you are using, into the water!
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This clever photography tip dates back to the 1990s. And like most other throwbacks from the 1990s, it’s one to hold onto. Hold a CD in front of the camera to reflect light back into the camera’s lens. For making lens flares that appear to move randomly, this is perfect.
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You can take a photo directly across from the natural light source to capture shadows. Or, you can place a strainer over your camera’s flash. A what? A strainer, but any cooking tool with unique holes and shapes will do. Improve your portrait photography portfolio by experimenting with light to provide a special effect. You might also use window blinds, palm leaves, or anything crochet to create an interesting shadow.
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Shadows help define form and shape, but they may also evoke a sense of mystery and intrigue by changing the appearance of otherwise identifiable objects. In contrast to conventional photography, shadow play photography emphasizes narrative, emotion, and the creative use of shadow. Just keep trying new things and different lighting, be daring with your concepts, keep it lighthearted, and dazzle the spectators with your originality!
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You can create a soft-focus lens effect using items you probably have lying around your house. Try using a cloth or a bandage and wrapping it around your lens for a soft, blurred-frame effect.
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In product or food photography, the background is one of the most crucial stylistic elements. These days, it’s popular to utilize a negative space strategy to eliminate any distracting components. A cloth or paper can ideally make up for a simple plain backdrop. However, instead of only placing the background behind the subject, it is advised to organize it so that it can easily change from a vertical to a horizontal surface. This is one of the photography backdrop tricks that gives the appearance of an “infinity curve,” evoking an obscure space surrounding the subject. In photography, an infinity cove or infinity cyclorama is an entirely white area with no edges used to create the illusion that an object’s background is infinite.
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Equipping the technique demonstrated above, you can take “wildlife” pictures in the comforts of your own bedroom. Literally.
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Want to transform your standard camera lens into a macro lens? All you really need is a cardboard paper towel roll (you could use a TP roll, but the effects would be slightly different). You want at least 10 centimeters or so of the tube. Cut the tube and then use black paper to line the inside of the tube so that the “lens” port is dark.
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A clever use of a spring can give the impression that you have some sort of superpower! Spring man? There are many ways to go about this. Just put your creative hat on!
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High-speed photography literally takes your photos to the next level. High-speed might initially seem impossible to take at home, but this simple instruction will teach you how to freeze action. A tripod and a subject are the first things you’ll need; the subject might be anything from a glass of water to painted balloons. In addition, you will need a solid backdrop and a wireless external flash (Speedlight).
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A cucoloris is a term for fake windows used in photography and cinematography. Any object or gadget that creates a pattern of shadows on a scene qualifies. They can also be referred to as cookies informally. A gobo or go-between is another name for them. It can refer to any object placed between the light source and the scene you are recording or photographing.
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When you notice anything intriguing, take a moment to check that the horizontal and vertical lines are straight before clicking. Today, it’s become ingrained in all of us to point our cameras in the general direction of the subject we photograph. We suggest you line yourself up perfectly with that structure or person.
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Warning : using this hack may cost you a new background paper roll!
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Want to produce a foggy, ethereal effect? To make it happen, all you need is a plastic quart bag. Cover your lens with a plastic sandwich bag to create a DIY haze filter/effect. But make sure there are no breadcrumbs left inside the bag!
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You may add lens flares to your photos the organic way by shining a flashlight directly into your lens!
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A lightbox is often essential for any product photography that calls for taking well-lit pictures of small objects. However, a cardboard box and a piece of plain white fabric might work just as well to create your own lightbox! Using tape and scissors, you can rig it yourself and save some precious dollar bills. Oh, and don’t forget the desktop lamps placed on both sides!
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The definition of beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Even though everyone is charmed by a vast range of physical characteristics (thank goodness!), science has asserted facts about what we are biologically inclined to find more appealing. In fact, contrary to what was predicted, asymmetrical faces were widely perceived as more attractive.
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You may bring your photography abilities to new creative heights with various macro photography tips, such as utilizing a magnifying glass to create close-up shots. Also, you may include the magnifying glass in the frame to give your photo a unique flair.
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Follow the direction above to make your photos look like they were taken in the ’90s!
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If you discover an image that reflects the exact same from top to bottom or from right to left, your viewer will turn over with delight! How often do we see something every day and then see a photographer take a picture that shows an entirely different angle of the same thing? Not so often!
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If you don’t want to risk shooting in the rain and getting your expensive gear wet, but still need that raining sensation in your pictures, you may want to try one of the easiest photography tricks. Simply use a picture frame and a spray bottle. Spray water on the glass surface to make raindrops. For a spectator, it’s really hard to tell that those are not “real” raindrops.
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Another unexpected tool that may reduce glare? Save those Starbies’ coffee sleeves for your upcoming shoot outdoors. You can use them when the sun causes glare on your camera lens.
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Colored filters are precisely what they sound like — a piece of tinted glass that you place in front of the lens. These filters’ effect relies on the filter’s color and alters how the camera perceives light. However, while the results may not be the same, you can try DIYing your own color filter using transparent scotch tape and markers before investing in one.
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You may make your portraits appear more dramatic by simply adding shadows. It gives a flat image some punch and makes it more attractive. For this reason, looking for ways to add shadows on purpose may be a brilliant idea. And one of the simplest ways to do so is by utilizing lace.
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This method is a brilliant choice for a homemade soft light. All you need is an intense light and something to hang the shower curtain from, which you most likely already have or can easily pick up at the shop.
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Give one of the many glasses you likely have in your kitchen cupboards another purpose by using it as a lens filter to create an interesting effect.
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Getting down to your subject’s eye level, whether it’s a squirrel or a bird, can create a very intimate and natural shot. However, laying down and using your elbows as camera support is neither comfortable nor solid enough to reduce camera shake and ensure proper, sharp images. Thus, placing a bag of lentils may be the solution!
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Want to give your photographs a little color or diffusion? Put a nylon stocking over the lens (borrow from your mother or a girlfriend if you don’t have one lying around). You can create your own DIY lens filter by securing it with a rubber band. Also, You can try something more vibrant using colored stockings or neutral with a white pair.
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Any food photographer or product photographer will love this technique: use a simple steamer that is out of the shot to add steam to your photographs.
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This hack only requires a few glow sticks, which you can typically get for $1 at any store, a model, and a dark setting. Adjust your shutting speed and have your model draw shapes in the air!
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To create the appearance of windblown hair, ask your model or someone to assist in holding a hair dryer. This DIY photography tip should also be helpful for those who take self-portraits!
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Try out this DIY photography hack to produce outstanding food photos and make them appear vivid and dynamic! To surround your subject with clouds, you’ll need to add some flour. Yes, flour you make pancakes with. To create your magical photo, follow these steps:
Plan your shoot using a sketch.
Gather the props and equipment.
Make a DIY cloud gun.
Keep all objects in place with glue and knitting needles.
Arrange the composition to make it steady and still.
Use two light sources for lighting the scene.
Take the photo step-by-step.
Edit your magical photo in post-processing. Voila !
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Duck-tape your phone to the ceiling and go under it to take a perfect top-down photo for your Instagram.
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You’ve undoubtedly heard a million times to stand with your back to the sun to prevent your subject from seeming too dark in a photo, but if you are clever about what blocks the sun, you can obtain a beautiful outdoor shot.
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You can improve the lighting on your face by using something as simple as a whiteboard.
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This is a tried-and-true old trick. Early Hollywood film directors would apply vaseline to their lens filters to create a dreamy effect. By using this technique, you may give your subject a subtle shine without applying too much makeup. However, vaseline should be applied on clear plastic wrap or a filter rather than the lens itself.
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If you want a clear image with an unusual reflection, try utilizing a black backdrop with a black tile underneath your product. It will enhance any product image without being too distracting.
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Ask your model to pose in front of some shrubs or trees to make a stunning nature image.
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Light tables can be handy for taking beautiful product photos. Using this tutorial above and a basic cardboard box, you can easily make your own.
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Your already helpful Gorillapod can become even more practical with this method. Drill a small hole in your Gorillapod’s feet and insert magnets that fit inside its leg. However, it’s essential to understand that this modification will nullify the warranty on your Gorillapod!
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Using a wristband to minimize zoom creep will help you avoid the annoying issue of your camera lens moving owing to gravity.
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Every good photograph includes three main centers of interest, which are achieved by having one in each third of the overall image. Remember that it doesn’t have to be completely level. For a genuine pro vibe, move off-center.
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Your photographs will appear to have film burn thanks to this easy method: simply hold a lit match in front of your lens while shooting. But be careful and don’t burn yourself or your expensive camera!
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Using a photo frame in photography is no news. However, the real magic happens in post-processing. Just trust the process.
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Use this technique to create beautiful, dreamlike photos of paint dissolving in water. With this technique, you may see a slow-expanding effect or something that appears more like evil tentacles spreading throughout. What happens in the few seconds after the paint drops into the water will very much depend on the density of the paint you use. Thus, play around with your paint before taking pictures to determine its density. If the paint is too thick, it won’t dissolve in water and will sink to the bottom of the tank. However, if it is too thin, it will dissolve rapidly and have a limited range of color density.
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We can almost see your puzzled expression at this point. And indeed, this hack is a tricky one. While you don’t need expensive equipment to experiment with photoelasticity, you do need a few specific things. Those are a polarizing filter, transparent plastic objects, and a polarized light source. Unfortunately, traditional lighting sources like the sun, lamps, LEDs, and flashbulbs do not emit polarized light and won’t do. In fact, if you are contemplating what kind of light source to utilize, you are currently looking at it. Your phone, tablet, or computer’s LCD screen all output polarized light in one plane.
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It’s incredible how simple it is to take excellent pictures if you know just consider the following: if you are taking a shot of someone outside and the sun is right behind them, the subject will appear like a shadow (which could also work to make a silhouette photo). All you have to do is move them to face the sun, and they will be well-illuminated. However, avoid direct sunlight if you don’t want your subject to squint or have over-exposed areas in your photos!
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If red eye consistently ruins your pictures, give this a try: when using the flash, have your subject look slightly above the camera.
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You may have noticed that both DSLR and phone cameras’ flash pops up as soon as it gets slightly darker, despite not always being needed nor desired. While flash photography works great in dim and poorly lit environments, taking photos with a flash actually requires some knowledge to make it work. However, in everyday scenarios or basic photoshoots, no flash should work just fine. If the area you are taking photos in is relatively dim, switch off the flash and raise the ISO instead. Increasing your ISO will make your camera’s shutter speed faster in all modes other than Manual and Shutter Priority, giving you a better chance of capturing moving subjects. Now take the picture.
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Honestly, simple photos that allow for the subject to breathe make for the most incredible images. So go ahead and find the plainest background you can. For the spectator, the experience of looking at a busy vs. simple photo is the same as the difference between stepping into a super-cluttered home or a clean, minimalist setting with few distractions. Take the extra time to look around and pick a simple background that doesn’t draw attention away from the subject if you shoot an image of a person.
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The easiest and least-used tip in the photographer’s handbook is arguably the rule of thirds. How to utilize it? Go into your camera’s menu and select “Grid,” which will display a grid with horizontal and vertical lines as you look through the viewfinder. With the help of the grid, place your subject in the left or right third of an image, leaving the other two-thirds open. Although there are different types of composition, using the rule of thirds usually results in interesting and well-composed photos. Most amateur photographers center their subjects in the center of the frame. Good try but BO-RING!
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Family photos are difficult to take. Unless you don’t mind running back and forth to set the timer off, have a remote shutter control, or are an iPhone user. You can actually shoot pictures using the volume control on your iPhone headphones (the ones that used to come in the box). If you own an Apple watch, you can also make it function as a camera remote!
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Here is another trick utilized for as long as tripods have existed. Just put some cotton or felt pads on the tripod’s feet. If the flooring is smooth (a cobblestone walkway WON’T do), you can use your tripod as a dolly to create smooth panning views and time-lapse videos.
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Most believe that to capture the entire scene, they must take a huge step back and leave plenty of space around the subject. One must remember that occasionally, you can cut off your subject’s forehead, legs, or lower body from the frame. They are not a mime trapped in an invisible box! The issue with always having the camera zoomed out so much is that the viewer isn’t immediately made aware of the photo’s purpose or subject. As is often said, the simpler your shot is, the better. The most compelling images make it crystal clear to the spectator what “narrative” you are trying to convey. If you are trying to convey their emotion, such as anger or sadness, use a close-up of their brows and eyes. While hands can help convey anger through clenched fists, hands may not help convey a feeling of despair.
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In the introduction, we mentioned that some people simply have an eye for photography. And while some may actually be born with it (lucky folks), it’s also a skill that can be acquired. Look at the structures you pass, the windows you see, the brickwork patterns, etc. One unexpected “click” may allow you to realize there is a pretty fascinating pattern in the brickwork of a building you pass through every day.
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Most photographs that viewers see are taken at eye level from the photographer’s vantage point, which is also how we perceive most of our daily experiences. We don’t often view cities from that perspective, so it’s not surprising that they are aesthetically magnificent when you climb to the top of a tall structure and look down on them. In food photography, this bird’s-eye perspective is frequently used. Just play with it, and you might discover a hidden treasure!
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Creating a flash grid attachment to create a spotlight effect is another useful do-it-yourself photography lighting technique. A piece of straw, cardboard, and an elastic band are all you need.
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If you already have a beautiful spot to snap a mirror image, turn the camera 90 degrees to add even more points of interest.
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Make your own neutral density (ND) filter using welding glass that you can find at any hardware shop rather than paying for a pricey ND filter from a camera shop. Utilize this technique to produce black and white long exposure photos.
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Sometimes, the unposed is actually better. Caught-in-the-moment photographs convey real moments the best. People are more likely to reflect on how they felt at the time when the picture was taken when they see a candid portrait of themselves rather than a posed one.
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Using reflective paper for product photography aids in obtaining more diverse light perspectives.
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To create a captivating background, simply go to the kitchen and grab some tin foil. You could also use crumpled foil to create an interesting texture. Then, you can set it up as a background. You can change the bokeh’s color by using a light source of a different hue and directing it to the background. To add even more creativity, place a mirror underneath the object to create a reflection effect.
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Duh ! A super easy way to obtain a beautiful photo backdrop is to find a wall with cool paper or an interesting pattern and just start taking pictures!
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You can get a smooth slide in any video using just a towel or an old rag. Simply place your camera on the towel after putting it on a flat surface. Then, after you begin filming, drag the towel across the surface for a simple, inexpensive DIY slider.
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Then take a photo through the glass. Voila ! Who would even catch on that it was a sunny day outside when you took the photo?
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Most people consider the most artistic shots as those that use a big aperture expressed as an f-number to blur the backdrop to draw more attention to a subject. However, your aperture will probably only drop to f/3.5 if you use a kit lens, which isn’t a very large aperture. However, the effects may be just as stunning as done with a macro lens.
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A shaking hand can cause a perfect phone photo to appear blurry and off. To prevent this from happening, try attaching two binder clips to the back or side of your phone to make a DIY tripod.
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Your photos will appear “softer” if you place a layer of glass between you and your subject. Windows are an excellent tool for this. You can use this approach not only for portraits but also for still life and street photography.
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The most common approach to incorporating neon signs into your photos is through portraiture. Allow your subject to bask in the light by having them stand next to or underneath them. Your model’s skin may take on an alluring glow thanks to the various hues they emanate. By having your subject stand against it, you may use the rich light and sharp contrast they provide to highlight specific areas of their face or body. You can also incorporate neon signs in your frame because they look fantastic in photographs.
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Although you may purchase your own tilt-shift lenses, they can get pretty expensive. Thankfully, today’s many smartphone apps include tilt-shift options, and Instagram is one among them. Tilt-shift lenses are pretty popular among photographers because they make it easier to manipulate the images’ focus and depth of field than other lenses. Even when the photo’s subject is still, a tilt-shift lens can give the image a sensation of motion.
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To create some pretty cool effects, take some of your holiday tinsel and hold it up to your camera’s lens.
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You may get some outstanding results if you use this photography hack properly. To benefit from how a longer exposure time blurs moving subjects and catches moving points of light, use a long shutter speed (also known as a “slow” shutter speed). Also, when using slow shutter speeds, use a tripod so that any in-focus regions are crisp and only the parts you wish to depict motion are blurred.
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