Photographing your gear - tips, tricks and questions
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Here are some of my personal thoughts if one is interested in getting a little bit into photography:
- today the choice of cameras are endless an it is not anymore necessarily to have a DSLR
- there a excellent compact- or mirrorless cameras out there
- a tripod is importend, but some infrastructures in city's like benches, mailbox or railing, or in the outdoors, it could be your backpack, a tree trunk or a stoneman. Just be creative. What helps then a lot is something to level the camera, like a bandana, gloves, beanie, little stones.
- then ist is important to check that the camera has WiFi to connect with the smartphone, with this you have the trigger and can change from the distance some basic settings.
- But the most important, to make a picture to stand out, is the light and environment, no matter what gear you use! Here the very, very beautiful wooden floor from @nizzel55 comes to my mind.
There are plenty more, but have to work right now…later if there is time, I will write a little more!
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I would by no means call myself a good photographer. Since I'm not a good photographer I think the key is having a pretty decent camera. If you're a pretty good photographer then the camera I don't think is as necessary. All of my OOTD pics on my instagram are taken with an iPhone and some helpful filters. I also own a Nikon D5200 that comes out every now and then when taking detail shots I post on this board. A very good photographer I know once told me, "Don't be afraid to get close.". As an amateur I think the best thing you can do is just mess with the settings on the camera you own. Eventually you're bound to get things looking pretty good.
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I've never used filters on any photos. I have a lot to learn here.
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- It is worth to get used to the Aperture Priotity Mode (A), this way you choose the arperture for the effect you want to achiefe and the camera uses the shutter speed acording to the light avaliable.
- With people and animals I prefer most of the time a narow depth of field. Meaning to isolate the point of interest from the background to draw the viewers eye into my point of interst.
- to get this effect are lenses neccesery with large apertures like 1.4, 2.0 or 2.8, longer telephoto lenses can have 4.0 or even 5.6. to get the same effect. If you dont have large apertures like 1.4 to 2.8 avalible, choose your smallest, then watch out for some wide open space and get close to your point of interest, this way you should also get a blured out background.
- you should always ask your self what you want the viewer to look at, and then try to find a way achiefe your goal.
But this is just scratching the surface!!!
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I would by no means call myself a good photographer.
You're fit photo's are great though, with and without filter
Cool backgrounds, and all the detail from your gear comes through, even in full body shots, which is what I can never seem to manage.My problem is finding a spot with appropriate lighting. In my house it's all down lighting so pretty much wherever I stand it's shiny head and well lit shoulders, then everything else fades to black
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I would by no means call myself a good photographer.
You're fit photo's are great though, with and without filter
Cool backgrounds, and all the detail from your gear comes through, even in full body shots, which is what I can never seem to manage.My problem is finding a spot with appropriate lighting. In my house it's all down lighting so pretty much wherever I stand it's shiny head and well lit shoulders, then everything else fades to black
Definitely appreciate that. Lately I've been taking all my photos at the bottom of a stairwell in a parking garage near my office. A little brightness increase and things come to life a bit. My apartment is also awful for taking pictures so I do my best to avoid it. Really I think it just comes down to nice light and a background that's either simple and/or has a good texture (brick, etc.).
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Love this thread. Been doing photography for a long time,but photographing clothes is like Kryptonite to me. Have a real tough time getting accurate color representations of the jeans some times,which can be frustrating and I ,ultimately end up not posting it.
If you have the option to manually white balance do it straight after setting up your shot..
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A very good photographer I know once told me, "Don't be afraid to get close."
"If your photographs are not good enough, you're not getting close enough" Robert Capa.
The advice I can give for people not shooting in a studio is to find a decent light source. Make sure that that light source is hitting you on the front without anything too bright in the background. That may sound a bit obvious but if you're shooting without a flash and on an iphone getting the lighting right is key. Can't beat the sun for light… even if it's cloudy.
Keep the angle of your phone or camera level. When i'm shooting my fit pics i aim the camera for the middle of my torso for jackets, shirts etc and just below my knees for jeans. If you end up having an extreme angle it'll look weird due to the perspective.
OH! and don't clench your fist... makes you look mad or something
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Getting the colour right is tricky using an iphone indoors under different light sources… Natural light is best.
While shooting in the studio we use a colour mate which helps us get the closest colour temperature to natural light as possible. If you have a white balance section on your phone or on any post production software setting the colour temp to around 6000 and tint is usually around 0 plus or minus 3.
I don't know if that info is useful. This is all based on my lightroom settings. It'll change from light to light which is why colour balancing is one of the biggest headaches for me. Something with more knowledge can add more about it...
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This is all very useful info. Thanks everyone.
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