I feel that it's more important now than ever to have great photography skills
Hey it's your girl Ally, welcome back to my channel. In today's video I'm going
to share 12 Photography hacks, whether you're a beginner or a
professional photographer, I'm going to show you some simple ways you can
upgrade your phone pictures and cool props you can use with your
DSLR camera. I personally love shooting photos for my blog FashionbyAlly.com.
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For the first photography hack I'm going to talk all about framing the shot so
instead of putting your subject in the middle of the picture try putting them
off to the side or use the one-third guideline. It helps guide you through an
image and it tells a bigger story.
So if you're a fan of taking overhead shots of #food or flatlays you're really
gonna love this new feature! so there's this new cross that comes up on the
Camera app, that will tell you if you're directly aligned overhead of your photos.
Now you can perfect all of those Foodie shots or flatlays
For the 3rd photography hack I'm going to have my photographer friend Aditi show you guys a
neat photo trick that you can use with your iPhone with the panorama feature on
your iPhone to create the illusion that there are multiples of you in one
photo. Start by panning right around as your model runs counter clockwise left.
so you just have any creative way to ask your friend to prom you can be like P R
O M with your hands, I make the signs for them and then give me the whole photo
Will you go to Prom with me?
Instead of using the regular camera app on your phone you can shoot RAW images
directly from the Lightroom app on mobile. You can adjust the curves and
lights directly from the app.
I like to use the Facetune App's teeth whitening tool to
whiten the background of my pictures for a clean crisp look
Open Facetune and open a photo. Click on the teeth whitening
option down here just click it then go to work on the background making it whiter
Additional things that you might want to invest in are iPhone accessories or
tools.These tools can definitely up your photography game. I have two things
here, a ring light and an attachable lens. There are three different types of
lenses a wide-angle lens, fisheye lens, and a macro lens
So you can get a variety of shots all from your phone and you don't need to carry around
a big bulky camera.
All my food bloggers friends and beauty bloggers friends swear by this ring light.
This ring light is great at evening out of the different
shadows in this shot so that the cupcakes are evenly lit.
Shh don't tell
anyone I didn't actually make these cupcakes I bought them from Trader Joe's
but hey no one will know!
The first prop is the sun catcher, so this is a rainbow catcher you can
attach to your window and it creates a really cool circular rainbow light.
I don't know about you guys but I love Christmas all year round so I like to
pull out my string lights for my photos because it adds a cool depth effect to any portrait.
The end will be by the models face and then you take the tail
end and bring it by the camera so that it flares out closer to the camera and
you get this cool little string light bokeh effect.
you don't need a lot of money to create the rainbow effect.
You can also use iridescent paper you
can find at any craft store
some of my favorite props come from the kitchen so
this is solid faint paper that's iridescent you can also use saran wrap
or the foil to create a cool bokeh effect
for the next photography hack we're going to show you a really cool
cinematic way to create a panning shot without any equipment so I know when I
first started with photography I didn't have a big budget to spend on fancy
tripods which was at the time and we decided that Mull difficult on the
carpet with the books but it might work better with a blanket on top of the
hardwood floor I give this hack of thumbs down because it didn't really
work press I know you guys love my clothing hack videos so I decided why
not throw in a clothing hack in this video
Bofur pillows can be super super expensive but I really don't want to
spend 80 to 90 dollars on a pillow for instance this faux fur vest can also
double as a faux fur pillow fold it a few times and it instantly looks like a
faux fur pillow
one of my biggest struggles when it comes to photography is traveling and
trying to take photos at the same time when you travel abroad it's really hard
to trust the stranger with your expensive equipment like DSLR camera or
your phone my favorite website at the moment is photographer they have a list
of trusted photographers that you can hire on the go it's really quick and
super simple one of my pet peeves is forgetting to charge my vlog camera with
your battery pack you can actually charge more than just your phone you can
actually charge any mirrorless camera so through the USB cord you can charge this
whenever you're on the go the side directly into the camera make sure to
turn it on so that the light is on you can actually shoot with this while it's
plugged in too which is really awesome I know this is a really weird hack but it
totally works last but not least I wanted to talk about my photography
workflow so this is what I like to do after I shoot all my photos and how I
like to store and save my images a short story time for you guys I actually had
my car broken into last year and it was so traumatizing because the person stole
my harddrive with all of my memories I felt incredibly sad but I'm really happy
that I'm seeing but the worst part of it all was I lost a lot of precious
memories I'm going to share with you my photography workflow so I can save you
guys time and a lot of lost memories as well straight from the camera I like to
take out my memory card and I'll directly upload it to my computer this
is my mini portable hard drive I like to save my images in a folder with the date
the campaign name or the brand name next I like to save it on an online storage
solution so I use Dropbox or you can also use google photo now that I have
everything uploaded to Google photo and Dropbox I can actually access all of
that on my phone so whenever I want to go I have all my images on my phone
ready at a touch of a button and that way I don't have to worry about ever
losing any of my images or videos so with all the
Photography hacks I hope you learned something new so be sure to tag me in
any of your pictures on Instagram or any of your social media websites at fashion
met Ali so I can go liked your pictures and stock your photos I'm really excited
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