Challenge Your Creativity and Learn New Photographic Skills This Winter!
Here are some ideas to increase your photographic skills during the winter months and create some cool photographs in the process!
Watkins Glen State Park, Watkins Glen, New York
- Long exposures in the daytime – this technique will affect any kind of motion in the image. You can use it make flowing water look like cotton; a long shutter speed can also be used to remove cars or people walking by in a landscape shot. This technique can also be used on indoor water fountains like the one at the National Building Museum or to take an interior architectural shot.
Goetze’s Caramel Creams – since 1895!
- Photograph the refractions of objects or images placed behind a glass container of water. Objects that have good contrast work well.
Lavender in Ice
- Freeze flowers in ice and photograph them. Use distilled water to produce clearer ice and less bubbles.
- To create unique images try using a lens for a genre other that which it was intended. A 7.5mm wide angle lens on a cropped sensor camera (effectively a 15mm focal length) was used to capture more of the striations in this 8 inch glass bowl.
- Add items like sheer fabric around the perimeter of the lens to create a soft veil of color around the edges of your photo. The fabric can be secured with something as simple as a rubber band. Pink tulle in a darker shade than the roses was used to create the flattering frame around them.
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Photo by Sherryl Belinsky