Christmas time is when everyone wants to take the perfect picture of their decorations.
i've come up with some really neat ideas
to help you capture that!
and i can't wait to share them all with you!
last night my family put the Christmas tree up,
so of course i grabbed my camera!
i thought of a super awesome idea for a tree.
this one is a complete blur,
but you can tell that it's a Christmas tree.
neat, right?!
this is how you do this:
1) make sure you're on manual.
remember! a real photographer always uses manual!
it will force you to get better!
2) turn all overhead lights off
with them on, it makes the picture look "artificial"
3) go ahead and set your ISO to 1800
4) set your f-stop to 4.8
5) set the shutter speed to 1/50
please keep in mind: this was what I did, your lighting situation may be different.
therefore you may have to set it a little different
6) aim at the tree (or whatever lit object you want)
7) push the button down halfway to get it to focus
8) as it's focusing itself, wait till it's as blurry as it'll get and..
9) on your lens, switch the focus to A (this is automatic)
the reason for doing this:
when it gets blurry as your pushing the button halfway down,
switching over to A will make it stay blurry,
even when you take your finger off the button.
10) take the picture!
now....
not everyone has a DSL camera.
it is possible to do this with a regular digital camera.
it just won't look the same.
but you'll get the same concept.
1) make sure the flash it OFF!
2) when you're aiming at the tree,
put something in front of you to focus on.
this way the tree will be blurry in the background.
you can lay on your back, and focus on your feet, right in front of you!
3) when you get your shot, crop out whatever you used as your prop!
did it work?!
please share with me how it worked out for ya!
