Using reflections in your photography can give you a new way of making a composition. There are some things that you need to think about. In this video, I go through some of them. I give you a few tricks about reflection photography.
There is also an assignment for you. You can also get some feedback for your images. Instructions can be found here.
The Feedback Live Stream will be on the 29th of April, 2021 at 4 PM (GMT). You can watch it from my YouTube -channel.
Getting accurate color in photography is sometimes very crucial. Of course, in every day shooting it might not that important. Macro, landscape, and portrait photography might genres where color accuracy is important.
You want the skin tones and colors of products to be perfect. In the linked video I will give you four tips about colors and how to get them right.
Using a color checker and calibrating your camera is actually quite easy. What you need is a Color Checker. I have used X-Rite Color Checker Passport 2 and Passport Video. With these two cards, I can be sure that my colors are correct. the way they actually are.
The workflow is quite easy. You just include the Color Checker in the first photograph. The most important thing is to have the same light as you will have on your photograph. This way you will get the best results. The instructions on how to proceed from that can found from the video.
Does gear matter in photography is a question that I get asked quite a lot. There is no one answer to this. You can answer No and you can answer Yes. It all depends on the perspective you take on this one.
Many of us think that getting new gear will make you a better photographer. In my opinion that is false. To be better you must learn how to use your existing gear. Getting new once won’t help in that at all.
Sometimes limiting yourself will be a better solution. Having limitations makes you think more. You need to solve problems and that will make you better. You might come up even ith new ideas and totally new kinds of images.
For example, in landscape photography, most of us think that a wide-angle is a must. Yes, a wide-angle lens is often used in landscape photography. If you do not have an ultra-wide-angle, what then?
Why not try a standard lens or even a telephoto lens. That can give you a totally new kind of landscape photos.
When you get better here might a time to start thinking about better gear that actually will make you better. Well it is maybe a bit too much to say that it is the gear, it is the possibilities that the new gear gives. What I mean by that is that it might open up all new ways of making photographs. Sometimes it might even give a possibility to try new genres.
One example is bird photography. You can photograph birds with a wide-angle, but getting a longer lens will give new possibilities and new kind of mages that was possible for you before.
In the video below I talk more about the No and Yes.