I'm Nicki Fitz-Gerald and you're watching AdoramaTV.
You don't have to travel the world to take amazing photographs,
being a good photographer is all about having a good eye and
today I'm going to show you how you can take great photographs
all from the comfort of your own home.
AdoramaTV presents iPhotography with Nicki Fitz-Gerald.
The home is a great place to get creative with your photography,
it's really easy to overlook the things we see every day around us,
but actually if you look a bit closer and pay attention to the light and the
details you'll see there is fantastic opportunities
everywhere you look. Also if you're a bit shy about taking photographs indoors
you're going to feel a lot more comfortable about taking photographs in the comfort of
your own home,
so you can experiment and see what works and what doesn't, and finally making a
set of images in your own home
is a lovely way to tell a personal story about yourself.
As always with photography
light is absolutely key, and never more so than when photographing indoors.
Indoors it can be really, really dark so we need to find another source of light
we don't want to use our flash because that's just going to ruin all the ambience.
So other sources of light, all these can be found everywhere they can be found in
ceiling lights,
in lamps around your home, see what is working for you,
birthday cake lighting up a child's face, even a child looking at the oven
at a cake that's rising looks fantastic with the oven light coming out,
use the French door light, use iPads, use iPhones,
there's plenty of light around the home so just make the use of it.
So how do you get started in the home? Well the best thing is just to walk
around your house, just relax,
find something that interests you and then start shooting it, don't just shoot from where you are,
shoot it from above, shoot it from the sides, shoot it from underneath,
see what works best and then just have a look through your shots
and just see what is working for you. Now as well as
windows being great for available light they are also fantastic for
natural frames. Now I've got my camera setup here, I've grabbed a few cushions from
around the home,
and what I want to do is introduce the subject now into this
frame that the window is making. So I have got these things here
which I can just place in the shot, so I'm just going to put these plants, place
them carefully in the middle
of each frame of the window
so they're nice and symmetrical, and what I'm going to do
is I've seen there is distractions outside, and what I want to do is actually
expose the outside and make that totally white so we get this lovely minimalist shot
just with the bars of the window.
Now here's how we do it, okay we open pro camera
which I've already done, and then what we need to do is expose on the darker parts
of the photograph, and I simply switch my camera
over to the curtains where it's much darker
and then just click on the exposure button and you'll see there
with the expose button on the curtains how that
bleaches that background out and you can see a lovely
white minimalist shot now, all we need to do is focus now on that flower in the middle,
position it so it's just right, and then click
and take the picture and now we've got that fantastic
look in our photographs, look in our camera roll
you'll see we've got this beautiful minimalist image,
and it's really easily created on an iPhone in seconds.
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One of the issues in photography
can be the light but the other issue is the color temperature.
Now all this means is the difference between a cooler photograph a bluer photograph,
or a warmer photograph which is what we want, now I can show you a great little trick
which is using the white balance
in ProCamera, all you need to do is
open ProCamera, let's take a regular shot and see what that looks like
just point the camera at the nice kitchen over there,
take the shot. It's a bit flat, it's a bit cool.
Now this is how we warm it up, we simply, we've ProCamera open
we point this at the cooler light
outside and what's going to happen now is the camera is going to compensate to make the image warmer.
So we go into our settingsm
click on the 'WB' which is white balance, click back on the screen
and you will see a WB come up there. What you need now is to take the temperature from
that by clicking on
AWB and you'll see it's locked there,
so let's just swing the camera around now take another look, and look at the
difference there that's really golden, that's really lovely, that's a much, much
better photograph,
much more cozy, and a lovely golden light,
that's really, really warmed up the picture and that's much, much much better
I'm really happy with that. So here we have a great scene, we've got this lovely window here
letting in
lots of natural light, it frames the scene but we need to put someone in it.
So let's introduce our model Emily into the scene to give the photo more interest.
We're also going to give Emily something to do so we've given her a keyboard which is not
going to pick up the light nicely as well.
So I'm just going to frame it now, I'm going to put my focus
on Emily's shirt there just to get an edge for the focus to take place with the light is
hitting her face nicely,
and the keyboard. I'm going to set my exposure, by just
testing around until I get the exposure just as I want, lovely
lots of darks and white's, nice contrast and
I think just want a bit more interest now I'm going to introduce a third element
which is going to be a mirror now this, if we position this
carefully on here, that's much better
we've got our scene set here, the light is beautiful coming there. I can see
Emily's face reflected in the mirror which looks fantastic.
First of all I'm just going to actually just expose, and get that exposure correct get the focus
on the mirror there, and so that looks absolutely fabulous, I'm really, really
happy with that.
Remember you don't have to travel halfway across the world to take amazing
photographs,
you can do all from the comfort of your own home. Remember to use the available light,
the ceiling lights, the lights coming through the window and also
make the use of that white balance by doing
that white balance test, putting your camera out the window, taking the temperature
and bringing your camera back indoors to get that really nice
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