​15 photography exercises you can take at home

Photography depends on the weather? Not really, it is true that when the weather is beautiful, canvas prints you can go out to capture beautiful scenery and light, but if the weather is bad and you are forced to stay indoors, you can still do a lot of interesting photography. Quickly collect the following 15 exercises, when you cannot out of the scene, let you at home in the indoor can also enjoy!

Exercise 1: catch the beauty of water droplets

You must have seen the close-up of water drop falling into water in mineral water or some beverage advertisements. The splashes of liquid are of different shapes, canvas prints online australia influenced by factors such as the force of water drop falling and the density of liquid, but they always bring people different visual feelings. Water droplets are everywhere in our daily life. Under the eaves of rainy days, the tap is not closed tightly; the shirt on the clothes rack is not wrought-out, and so on. Find a container with liquid in it and create the effect of dripping water.

In addition to the camera, the tripod and flash are also necessary on the equipment. The tripod can shoot stably, and the flash is the key to achieve this kind of high-speed photography. It is recommended to adjust the flash to manual mode when shooting, extra large canvas prints australia and set the output value less than 1/16 to achieve high-speed condensation effect; shutter speed is not the most important setting. In addition, in order to ensure the clarity of the subject, the aperture setting value should not be too large. To make the drops more beautiful, add materials such as resin or white powder to increase the consistency of the liquid, or add colorful pigments to get more different effects.

Exercise 2: the image of the object sinking into the water

In addition to pure water droplets, high-speed photography can also use other objects, such as fruits, to capture the splash of water when they are thrown into the water. To do this, you may need a remote control flash, as the flash needs to be mounted over the container, and the container that holds the liquid should be completely transparent, with a clean color palette as the background. The camera is like a tripod. It is recommended to use manual exposure and focus, set the aperture value at F8 and ISO200, select the shutter as fast as possible, and cooperate with the role of flash to shoot.

Exercise 3: paint with smoke

Light painting photography, I believe we are very familiar with, but I do not know whether you have thought, in fact, the smoke track can also be used for painting? In terms of photography, smoke control is lower than light, it is difficult to draw a very "complete" picture like light painting, but if you can use Photoshop to put together and synthesize multiple smoke tracks of different positions, it will get a new result, give play to your imagination!

Exercise 4: find colored light under a polariscope

This is not so much a technique of photography creation, but rather like a kind of light experiment, can pass through the polarizing mirror and polarizing film, found that transparent small objects appear under the usual hard to see the rainbow light. As can be seen in the following illustration, a layer of polarizing film is laid on the light box, and transparent objects are put on it. Then, a rainbow can be seen through the polarizing mirror.

You may have a polarizer in your hand, but if you only have one and you don't have another polarizer, you can also use a computer or cell phone screen to do this experiment, because they have the structure of a polarizer inside. You can simply do this experiment by calling out a white picture. But what kind of photography can be done with this phenomenon of "color light"? See how free play, play at home!

Exercise 5: a mini world of food

Station to share before a French photographer gourmet Lilliput's works, the use of figures and food situation, looks very funny, such ideas actually oneself also can try to look at, think about your hand whether some of the available doll toys, of course if you have the budget, also can go to buy a set to film the little doll, little doll like Presser were have a lot of choice, you can find on Google. The focus of this creation lies in the story of the situation and whether it can find resonance with the real scene to test the associative ability of the creator.

Exercise 6: explore the inner beauty of ingredients

The photography theme at first glance, can let a person think of biology class in the microscope picture, but the fact is that there is no denying that in daily life come into contact with the ingredients are "internal", is like an onion, lemon, orange, kiwi, etc, they all have different transverse section of the characteristics of grain, sliced them on composition, light box can "paint" the different geometrical effects. In order to take sharp and clear photos, it is suggested to set the aperture value to F8.0 to ensure the depth of field, and add one to three levels of exposure compensation to make the picture overexposed and create a transparent effect.

Exercise 7: flowers in ice

Flowers in their natural state have long been commonplace, and to try something new, Japanese photographer Kenji Shibata freeze flowers in the Ether to bring art to the work.

When making "fresh ice cubes", it is recommended to use distilled water as the medium, because the water is relatively pure and the transparency of the ice cubes will be relatively high. Production process, if a breath will take throw into the water to freeze, may be more difficult to guarantee completely frozen ice medium, therefore, besides trying to fixed flowers can also be used "layered frozen" way of production, make a thin layer of ice, put up the flower, add some water, let flower doused in the water, but not be floating, frozen for a second, let the flower. After removing, add a third time more water to send to freeze, can make a complete flower ice cubes. To shoot, place ice cubes in a white plate or sink so that the off-camera flash light bounces off the bottom, while the camera shoots from the opposite end of the flash.

Exercise 8: abstract painting of the lens

Speaking of oil floating on the water, people may think of "the soup is too oily to be healthy" or "the river is too dirty" and other negative impressions, but they do not know that this water and oil can be used in the creation of photographic art. Look for a transparent vessel, inside deep water, drop into a few drops of cooking oil, let the surface of the water present "oily" visual effect, and think of a way to let this basin of oil and water frame from the desktop 25 cm above the place, and then look for a piece of color paper on its desktop, make oil and water can give a variety of different colors. When shooting, use flash lamp or desk lamp to illuminate colored paper fill light.

Exercise 9: oil reflection painting

This technique is a little similar to the previous one, which also USES the special effect of oil and water surface to create images, but the former mainly USES the principle of refraction, while the latter USES the principle of light reflection on oil and water surface. Use cardboard, colored cellophane and tape to design the theme filter that you want to appear in your work. When you are finished, fix the filter in front of the lamp, but be careful not to let the bulb touch the filter. Then put the basin of oil and water in front of the lamp to start shooting. Note that if you are not shooting, it is recommended to turn off the lights to prevent them from overheating and causing the cellophane to melt.

Exercise 10: the glass illusion

If some of the above tricks are too cumbersome, this may make it easier for you to use the principle of light refraction for simple creation. You can also play with different visual effects by using a few transparent containers, water and a geometric pattern backboard. In addition to the camera, you may need a flash and a tripod. In different glasses, the injection of different levels of water, line in the glass behind the geometric pattern, because through the refraction of different media, and different deformation effect, just like an illusion.

Exercise 11: cooking life skits

Careful observation of their own kitchen or dining room, presumably there are also many worthy of exploration of the theme, after all, people's life is inseparable from food, and photography and life. You might think that the kitchen is always messy and not as beautiful as some restaurants in lifestyle magazines, so a close-up shot might be a good choice. After all, food, tableware, etc., often have rich colors and characteristics. Taking them as the main characters to record the details of cooking is a simple and interesting photographic exercise.

Drill 12: light spot series

If you have some small lights that you use to decorate your home for festivals like Christmas, you can use them with still life or portraits. Find a clean and not very bright background and place the lighting away from the subject at a reasonable distance. Use a large aperture and shallow depth of field to blur the light behind the subject beyond the depth of field to create beautiful spots and a dreamy atmosphere.

Exercise 13: dreamscape in front of aluminum foil

Want to pat the light spot that gives a dream, but the lamp that cannot find in the home is acted the role of again how to do? Similar results can be achieved if aluminum foil is found in your kitchen. Prepare a sheet of aluminum foil, crumple it as much as you like, then spread it flat and spread it on a wall or cardboard as a background. Place the still life subject you want to shoot at a distance from the background, illuminate the aluminum foil background with a lamp or flashlight, and adjust the aperture value to large after the camera is mounted on the tripod. If necessary, use flash or add light for the subject.

Exercise 14: still life photography with light painting

To light painting photography, you should be familiar with, before the station and you have shared a lot of light painting photography works, and this is as long as there is a flashlight, you can practice photography at home. Relatively direct use of "light" painting, still life as the main subject, light to create special effects method is a good entry point. In the preparation of equipment, in addition to the flashlight and the subject, the camera, tripod and shutter release that can support B shutter release are also essential. When shooting, the sensitivity can be set at ISO 80 or ISO 100. The shutter release can be used to control the long time exposure, and during the exposure process, the flashlight and other light sources can be used to draw the desired pattern effect. If possible, colored cellophane can be used to change the colors of the lights to enhance the visual quality of the creation.

Exercise 15: paint with light

The above mentioned relatively good entry light painting creative techniques, if you think you can master light painting special effects still life photography, then you can advance to completely use "light" painting to see. In addition to the hand "painting", here also introduces a fun way to play, can be tied flashlight with a rope, in a wider space, with the way of throwing rope exposure to see the effect of light painting, get a little like a child with ten thousand flower ruler draw out of the pattern, unique.

Take extra care when shooting, though, to keep the space wide and avoid hitting anything else, especially the camera. Before turning off the light, focus the flashlight automatically, then adjust to manual focus to lock the focus, and then set the aperture value at F11 or F16 to ensure the depth of field of the picture with a small aperture. Once the setting is complete, canvas floating frame the exposure time is controlled by the remote shutter and the painting is done with light.