If you complain because you can’t buy accessories for your camera and get creative effects, don’t go, today I bring you a lot of photo accessories that you probably have at home, even if you don’t know it. You want to know what they are?
Do you have a bag of seeds that heats up or cools down and you put it on when something hurts?Well, you have a stabilizer or a substitute tripod for special occasions, I have mine right now on my back?. Well, okay, I take it off to take the picture and illustrate the example.
- It’s known as pouf and can be filled with seeds.
- Legumes or even salt.
- If you don’t have one you can do it very easily (if you’re interested in hardware.
- Like the one I wrote to build a lightbox.
- Be sure to tell me in the comments).
Why is that? Well, when you don’t have a tripod and you have to rest your camera on an uneven surface, when you want to shoot at ground level but you don’t want to rest your camera on it or it’s not stable, when you have to do a dive or a low dive on a stable surface. Also for wildlife or even macrophotography.
Do you know those white bags with black letters that come in the shoe boxes and a lot of items?You must have thrown some away. Well, they don’t come on a whim in your shoeboxes, but because they’re anti-humidity and just as they were responsible for absorbing moisture from your new shoes, they can also prevent the appearance of mushrooms on your computer. all and leave them in your backpack with your camera and lenses, and repair them from time to time.
Although they can be bought, if you do not have them, while you are in new shoes or you are buying another item that brings them, you can bring another solution that also works well, empty a tea bag and fill it with rice. . You already have your moisture-proof accessory.
Do you have a glass of paper? yes, one of those guys who end up in the closets after a birthday party, a barbecue or a picnic. Yes, one of those. Well, with that and a pair of scissors or a cutter, you already have an umbrella. And to show a button.
If you have a bottle of Pringles potatoes, you have a snoot for your external flash, you may not know what it is. As you can see, it is an accessory to direct the light of the external flash that is convenient, for example, when making dramatic portraits.
When eating potatoes clean them (obviously), cut the base and paste it into your flash with duct tape (or not), you already have your bun. In the following video, you have a tutorial to create the complicated version (actually it is also very simple) that includes the honeycomb grid, which is used to highlight the lighting of the hair, illuminate the background or highlight an object over the rest, backlighting.
And if you want more ideas to create dramatic portraits with stunning shadows using objects around your home, don’t miss this video, which is in English but you don’t need to understand what it says, but what you see.
As frightening as the adverse weather conditions are, they are a great opportunity to take stunning photos How do you say there?In bad weather, good photos ;).
We also know that when you photograph rain, water is a big enemy of the camera and you have to protect it. How?
Do you have a shower cap of those that occur in hotels, for example ?, because you already have a blanket. It’s also worth using airtight frozen bags, who recognizes that you use it for many more things?Well, they’re good for this show, too. All you have to do is make a hole for the target to pass and you’re done.
A little more sophisticated is the possibility to recycle a raincoat, if you have a very old, broken or small one, before throwing it check if your camera enters the widest part of the sleeve, if that is the case cut the cover and insert the camera by inserting the lens into the hole of the wrist and adjusting it with the elastic.
It may not be a very everyday thing, but if you have children and are interested in education or alternative pedagogy, you probably know what a bedside table is and you can have one at home.
In addition to being a teaching resource, it will also serve as a photographic accessory to illuminate the backgrounds (in proportionate size, of course). If you want an example, you can see the following image. It’s the clinic floor, a bedside table?That’s the way he is. With a little touch-up, you put it white as snow.
I’ve been chasing the fog for a long time, but due to various circumstances, I can’t do it, so I decided to use the Vaseline tour one of these days.
If you want to try it like me, look for a filter that you don’t use much for or for which you don’t have a particular tilt and place it on the camera, then cover the edges with Vaseline and you’ll see how it gets the fog effect.
With a white curtain you can diffuse the hard light that runs through the window and turn it into a pleasant diffused light, it also serves a white tissue attached to the glass.
Let’s look at an example of what a tissue can do on the glass, same photo, same time with the only difference that in the image on the left was taken with paper and on the right without, one light is better than another. No, they’re different, it all depends on what you want to convey with your photo.
Silk paper glued to the window can also help you get a bright white background for small objects, as if it were a light box.
And since we’re talking about stations, let’s also talk about reflectors, at home you’ll probably have some of these objects.
Well, everyone can help you reflect the light to illuminate your subject and/or fill unwanted shadows.
Do you like these pictures of plants with dewdrops?You can emulate dew in your home with a simple sprinkler, just like that. And without having to get up early?.
With a black card you can create the shapes you want for your bokeh and take an awesome photo, and if you want to try it at home and run out of backlight, look for the Christmas lights you saved after the holidays.
If you have an external flash and want to have fun, try the colored gels, you can make them with colorful translucent plastic T-shirts, or even with cellophane.
A roll of paper or cardboard can serve as an infinite background, we’d better see it with an image. It is only for you to see the example, taking care of the white balance and with the editing you can turn it into a completely white background, the important thing is that you see that the cutting line between the background and the ground is not visible.
All these are ideas, but if you prefer to buy other cheap add-ons that you have not found here, do not miss this article with add-ons for less than 20 euros or this one in which you will find add-ons to give a lot of life. to your camera for less than 40 euros.
Finally, I leave you a video with five simple tips to take very creative photos with homemade objects, enjoy it, but above all, put into practice some of the ideas you just discovered!And if you have other tips, share them with us in the comments, we’d love to know.
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