Teach Yourself Creative Photography

Teach Yourself Creative Photography

Welcome to Teach yourself Creative PHOTOGRAPHY

Teach Yourself Creative Photography

Slowing the seas • Capture silky-smooth seascapes by slowing exposures with an ND filter

Get the high-key look • How to shoot impactful high-key portraits with a pair of flashguns

Tilt-shift on the cheap • Detach your lens from your camera to create unique, distorted pictures

Shoot the breeze • Discover how to make your subjects disappear into thin air for a ghostly portrait effect

In the shallow end • Learn how to capture creative scenic shots using a fast prime lens as we break the depth-of-field rules for shooting landscapes

Tone it around • Save time editing colour with a white balance filter

Double vision images • For a new take on urban photography, why not head out to duplicate a cityscape using a trick of perspective and a sheet of perspex

See the bigger picture • Learn how to shoot and stitch a bokeh panorama using the Brenizer technique to achieve a shallow depth of field

Blurred lines • Coat your lens filter in vaseline for abstract results

Flour power • Our gear receives a fine dusting of powder in pursuit of atmospheric action portraits – and it’s all totally organic…

Splash without flash • We demonstrate a super easy way to capture liquid in motion

The light fantastic • Armed with a few torches and LEDs, we spent an evening by a lake and show you how to create symmetrical light paintings

Dramatic portraits • We add honeycomb grids for professional flash effects which stop it from spilling everywhere. These grids are ideal for dramatic lighting setups when you need a contrasty photo. In this project, we’ll show you how to use Lastolite’s Strobo kit with a honeycomb attachment.

Say it with shadows • Use clever lighting to distort the shadow of a ring into an arty heart shape

Spin a Spirograph • Capture the movement of a torch spinning on string

Aim for the stars • Turn the sky at night into circular patterns by capturing star trails

Mirror, mirror… • Conjure up a surreal composite image that guarantees to reflect well on your Photoshop skills

Strobe the walls • Splash colour into your portraits with a couple of coloured gels

Hover-craft • Learn how to create an incredible levitating person

Candlelit winner • Learn how to capture alluring and atmospherically lit portraits at home

A line in the sand • Head to the beach with your DSLR and some garden tools to create anamorphic illusions in the sand

A bit of a blur • Step under an umbrella and learn how to liven up your portraits by including motion blur in the shot

Optical wizardry • For your next trick, create magical effects with a glass of water

Let’s twist again • Master the zoom burst technique for abstract results with a flick of the wrist – it’ll be enough to drive you round the twist

Out of the shadows • Add drama to portraits with the dramatic light-and-shadow gobo effect

Stack ’em up • Use the focus-stacking technique to maximise depth of field in close-up

In at the deep end • Take a dip into the wonderful world of underwater portraits, armed only with a few inexpensive pieces of kit

Pop-up portraits • Get the urban outdoor look indoors and capture some cool portraits using collapsible pop-up backdrops and two light sources…

Flaunt your curves • The ultra-distorted fisheye effect goes hand-in-hand with flash-lit action shots for a dramatic sports portrait

Frequent fliers • Turn plane-spotter for the day and discover how to capture aircraft at take-off and learn to create an incredible composite

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