‘DIY Photography Tips’: Seven Household Items You Won’t Believe You Can Use [Video]
These DIY photography tips use common household items to get the best picture, and you won’t believe what they are.
Photography can be an expensive hobby, with high dollar cameras, lenses, and tripods being only the beginning of what you have to know. Getting the camera in the right place at the right moment can mean everything, and sometimes you just want a practical effect that you don’t want to add in Photoshop, GIMP, or whatever image manipulation software you prefer.
The first household item in the video above is a beer cozy. How do you use it, though? While not used to place the shot or add an effect to the image, it serves a very practical use. It keeps that seriously expensive lens protected in case it falls.
A black tile is the second of the DIY photography tips shown in the video, and it can supply a neutral base for taking snapshots of things you might want to sell or just show off. While anything else might be distracting with patterns and such, the black tile easily reflects the item and give it that extra effect to help the photo pop.
A common tablet device can be used for background lighting. Just find or make an image with the color or design you want, put it in the viewer, place the tablet near the object, and take the photo. The video also shows an added effect if your camera has the capability.
A glass ball is useful for inverted image tricks. Just shoot through the ball and the image is automatically flipped with a cool focus effect.
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Use an aerosol spray and a lighter for a makeshift flame-thrower someone can hold for a nice environment effect outdoors. Just be careful trying DIY photography tips like this one, because any kind of fire can be dangerous to you and your equipment.
Tights and a rubber band can be used as a filter around the lens for soft lighting outdoors.
A mirror can reflect light to add a stylish shadow effect to your photo, though it does depend on bright sunny weather or other strong lighting to work.
A cheap tube light can be useful to add very localized lighting to a portrait, or simply as a stylish way to accent it in frame.
This video comes from COOPH (Cooperative of Photography) on YouTube, and definitely offers some useful ideas to make your photos stand out no matter what you’re snapping a photo of. Do these DIY photography tips give you any ideas? Do you have a common household item that can be used like these?
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