Get Started Now With Some Trick Photography Projects! - Trick Photography Techniques
These are just some of the simpler trick photography techniques that you can immediately use and take on as part of your photography challenge. They're fun to do and can produce some spectacular results with a bit of imagination and patience.
Long exposures
Trick photography isn't the only source to unleash your mind's creativity, but it really worked wonders for myself and my life. Educate yourself and apply your new knowledge. It's a beautiful day and I'm about to head outside. Hope to see you out there!
Light paintings are basically photos where you get your pictures to have a glowing light moving around the picture, as if the photo has been "painted" with light. This technique basically involves setting your camera on a tripod and with a long exposure setting. When the camera is taking the picture, you basically move a bright light in front of the camera to "paint". There are beautiful and creative light painting photos if you look around, and you will also find that there are many types of light you can use to paint with. The trick is to experiment and practice. It will take you a bit of time to learn to get sharp and vivid light paintings, but the result can be so spectacular that you'll want to master this technique.
These photography techniques can be practiced and mastered with nothing more than a regular camera, time, and a little imagination. After that evening with the sparklers, I decided to spend some time to look up different photography tips and practice the techniques that I learned by accident.
Using the opposite of a high shutter camera speed are the long exposure trick photography techniques. Most cameras especially the DSLRs allow you set and change the shutter speed manually to set it slower. This technique is best used with a tripod as you'll want to reduce camera shake as much as possible for a sharp image. This technique works best when you have stationary subjects and moving subjects. Moving objects or a light source will create a blur or trailing lights in the image, so some people have used this technique to create "light paintings" by waving a bright light source around a stationary object.
This is also a simple but very creative trick that will leave your viewers scratching their heads. You don't need photoshop to create pictures of people hovering a few inches off the ground. What you need is an able and willing model who is happy to keep jumping around on your command. You basically set a high shutter speed on your camera to remove any blurring that will destroy the illusion, ask your model to jump and then snap away. The more outrageous the mid-air pose, the more stunning it is.
To create this type of trick photography and special effects, you'll need Photoshop. A High-Dynamic Range image takes some time to perfect, but this method is used by the best in the industry. You'll see this in nearly any magazine you open.
Levitation photos are truly worth doing to add some fun and mystery to your photos. These are basically pictures of people or objects floating or levitating in mid-air. The simplest way to take levitation photos is to jump or throw the object into the air and take a photo. With a fast enough shutter speed, multiple attempts, and patience you'll be rewarded with a great levitation photo. You can create more elaborate levitation photos by digitally manipulating the image with a photo editing software.
Forced perspective
Long exposures
Trick photography isn't the only source to unleash your mind's creativity, but it really worked wonders for myself and my life. Educate yourself and apply your new knowledge. It's a beautiful day and I'm about to head outside. Hope to see you out there!
Light paintings are basically photos where you get your pictures to have a glowing light moving around the picture, as if the photo has been "painted" with light. This technique basically involves setting your camera on a tripod and with a long exposure setting. When the camera is taking the picture, you basically move a bright light in front of the camera to "paint". There are beautiful and creative light painting photos if you look around, and you will also find that there are many types of light you can use to paint with. The trick is to experiment and practice. It will take you a bit of time to learn to get sharp and vivid light paintings, but the result can be so spectacular that you'll want to master this technique.
These photography techniques can be practiced and mastered with nothing more than a regular camera, time, and a little imagination. After that evening with the sparklers, I decided to spend some time to look up different photography tips and practice the techniques that I learned by accident.
Using the opposite of a high shutter camera speed are the long exposure trick photography techniques. Most cameras especially the DSLRs allow you set and change the shutter speed manually to set it slower. This technique is best used with a tripod as you'll want to reduce camera shake as much as possible for a sharp image. This technique works best when you have stationary subjects and moving subjects. Moving objects or a light source will create a blur or trailing lights in the image, so some people have used this technique to create "light paintings" by waving a bright light source around a stationary object.
This is also a simple but very creative trick that will leave your viewers scratching their heads. You don't need photoshop to create pictures of people hovering a few inches off the ground. What you need is an able and willing model who is happy to keep jumping around on your command. You basically set a high shutter speed on your camera to remove any blurring that will destroy the illusion, ask your model to jump and then snap away. The more outrageous the mid-air pose, the more stunning it is.
To create this type of trick photography and special effects, you'll need Photoshop. A High-Dynamic Range image takes some time to perfect, but this method is used by the best in the industry. You'll see this in nearly any magazine you open.
Levitation photos are truly worth doing to add some fun and mystery to your photos. These are basically pictures of people or objects floating or levitating in mid-air. The simplest way to take levitation photos is to jump or throw the object into the air and take a photo. With a fast enough shutter speed, multiple attempts, and patience you'll be rewarded with a great levitation photo. You can create more elaborate levitation photos by digitally manipulating the image with a photo editing software.
Forced perspective
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