Photography ideas and tips to create beautiful photographs during the holidays

1. HOLIDAY SEASON PHOTOGRAPHY IDEAS AND TIPS
Photography ideas and tips to create beautiful photographs during the holidays
The upcoming Holidays can offer a lot of photographic opportunities. Today we
would like to suggest a few Ideas and tips to keep your creativity flowing.
WINTER LANDSCAPE.

2. Snowy landscapes are always magical and unique. These photographs make great
prints to hang on the wall or printed as a Holiday card. Winter landscapes always

3. make a fine addition to any landscape portfolio.
Tips for winter landscape photography:
Keep it warm. Wear gloves, so your frost-bitten fingers will not give up before
your artistic energy wears out.
Exposure Compensation: Your camera would suggest exposure based on neutral
gray. But the snow is about full stop brighter then neutral grey and pictures often
end up darker. If shooting in any of automatic modes go to your camera menu and
set Exposure Compensation to +1. (refer to you camera manual how to set
exposure compensation)
Condensation: When bringing your camera back indoors it”s best to let it
de-condense naturally by taking it out of the bag and removing lens cover for
about 10 minutes. (Condensation is happening when you bring optical gear from
cold to warm temperature)
Print and Frame your masterpiece and then hang it above the mantle. Looking at a
snowy landscape will make you feel even warmer and cozier.
This brings us to the next idea: The Fireplace.
FIREPLACE.

4. Tips for photographing the Fireplace:
First Set the exposure that will show fire at it’s best. See our previous tutorial:
How to photograph fire.
Once your exposure for fire is set add a second light source to light your subject: it
could be a pop up flash or strobe or clamp lamp (whatever your preferred light
source is)
ORNAMENTS.

5. Tips to photograph Christmas Ornaments:
Use very shallow depth of field to separate your subject from the background.
Experiment with soft focus filters video below:

6. UNCONVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES:
Take your pictures over the edge using unconventional techniques:Video: 4
Unconventional Christmas Lights Photo Techniques.