Unique photo tips and tricks

Unique photo tips and tricks

Here are some fun  and unique photo tips and tricks that will help you in various situations.

Tripod from common objects. Unique photo tips and tricks 1

1 We have all been in a situation were we need a tripod and none is in site.
My favorite trick is to use a water bottle cap. First take the cap from a large plastic bottle. Find a screw that fits in the hole in the bottom of you camera. Make a hole the size of the screw and screw it in the bottle cap. Keep this bottle cap in your camera case. Now whenever you need a tripod just use the bottle of water you have in your backpack replace the bottle cap with the one you have in your camera bag and voila a tripod.
2. Want to take a group photo but don’t have a place to set the camera?  Just whip the lamp shade off a lamp and screw your camera onto the lampshade-holder. The thread size of the bolt on a lamp shade is exactly the same size as the filter thread used on tripods, so your camera will easily attach.

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Hot shoe attention getter for kids. Unique photo tips and tricks for kids

Shooting photos of kids can be quite the feat.  It seems like they are interested in looking at everything BUT the camera. Try this unique photo tips and tricks.

The perfect solution is to buy a simple PEZ dispenser on the hotshoe of your camera!  The base of the PEZ dispenser is a tiny bit wider than a standard hotshoe, so you’ll have to trim it just slightly with a kitchen knife before the shoot.

Then, when the kids are being good and looking at the PEZ dispenser, you can have them come up and grab a little candy periodically during the shoot.  It’s pure genius.

Remove people from photo.  Unique photo tips and tricks 3

This is an awesome trick for travel photographers.  Sometimes you’re at an amazing location, but there are people in the way of your shot.  If you want to take a picture of a landmark and people are in your shot, you will likely spend the rest of your adult life cloning people out of the shot unless you try this technique.

Step 1: Set your camera on a tripod.

Step 2: Take a picture about every 10 seconds until you have about 15 shots, depending on how fast people are walking around.

Step 3: Open all the images in Photoshop by going to File > Scripts > Statistics.   Choose “median” and select the files you took.

Step 4:  Photoshop finds what is different in the photos and simply removes it!  Since the people moved around, it fills the area where someone was standing with part of another photo where no one was there.

Change the background from light to dark. Unique photo tips and tricks 4

Sometimes you’re out shooting portraits on a bright sunny day and the light just looks too… natural.  I often find this is the case when shooting a wedding or engagement when I’m shooting at a park or other outdoor location and I get bored with the same lighting in every shot.

One trick that I really enjoy is to turn up the power on my flash to the max.  This will, obviously, make the subject extremely bright.  If you change your camera settings to expose for the subject, it will make the background look extremely dark because the flash didn’t hit it.

This makes it look like it’s night time even if it’s the middle of the day.