DTL Photo

If the weather’s too bad to venture outside, then grab some colourful fruit and brighten up your day with an indoor shoot.  If you can find some blue dye and old plywood backgrounds to makeover. The vibrant color is inspiring for creating joyful image. This is the base element for citrus balloons creation. Go grab some fruit in your house such as oranges and lemon. Cut it them a half and arange them on the background so that the look like a bunch of balloons. Then removed the fruit and glued a few pieces of rope to the background, adding the fruit back into the scene with the addition of a few kumquats and green leaves. Setup your lighting that consist of flashgun positioned top-right of the image and reflector top-left. Placed the camera on a tripod above the setup, held the ends of the rope in one hand, and took the shot with your free hand. You can use self-time, however it was quite easy to press the shutter in this small project scenario. Place your fruit roug...

Working to a theme is a great way of focusing your attention and exploring the visual possibilities of a subject. But spring itself is such a wide and all encompassing theme that it’s difficult to create a series of images that work cohesively. But narrow the idea further to aspects of spring, and much more obvious stories will become apparent. A single image can suggest a story, but a set of three can tell it. A triptych is simply a way of displaying three images side by side, and for our spring triptych the theme we worked with was gardening and new life. The result was a set of three images that show different elements of the growing process, with the hands holding a flower in soil suggesting the nurturing aspect of gardening. The best thing about storytelling with photography is that there are two approaches you can take. You could choose to show what was in front of the lens using focusing and composition to make the images interesting. Alternatively, try something more cre...

Flat lay is trendy right now, and you’ll see a lot of it on Instagram.It’s popular in many photography genres, including food. It’s not quite proper for classic still life compositions where you want depth, but it clearly lets us define the shapes of objects. You can use it to better show the beauty of many dishes, as well as utensils and tools. It will take 5 to 60 minutes if everything that you need for shooting is ready. For the picture with the vintage cutlery (right), takes 20 minutes for scene set up. Camera and Lenses Camera and lenses use in this project is Canon 700D with Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L IS USM  and Sigma 17-50mm f/2.8 lenses. Some people like to use a tripod for these kinds of shots, but if shooting with studio lights there’s no need - the flash will freeze any camera movement and gives wonderful crisp details. There is differences either you use flash or not.If you prefer the freedom of shooting handheld - there is some advantage...