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Creative Techniques to Try With Your Camera
Photography is a brilliant hobby and creative outlet, and there are many different techniques you can have fun experimenting with. On this page, I've compiled a list of tutorials for new & interesting photo-capturing methods, plus impressive photos showing off the end results.
Most of them are within the capabilities of beginners with just a point-and-shoot digital camera, and a lot of the techniques have room for you to experiment with your own variations, which could perhaps end in you inventing a brand new technique - who knows?!
I hope you are inspired to try some of these out to vary your photography, and if I've left a good method out, let me know :-)
Photo by Richard Heeks.
Most of them are within the capabilities of beginners with just a point-and-shoot digital camera, and a lot of the techniques have room for you to experiment with your own variations, which could perhaps end in you inventing a brand new technique - who knows?!
I hope you are inspired to try some of these out to vary your photography, and if I've left a good method out, let me know :-)
Photo by Richard Heeks.
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Water Drop Photography
Camera Toss
Photo by Carey Russell.
- A camera was thrown over a lit-up Christmas tree for this effect!
Click here for information on how to create a similar effect.
Technique How-Tos
- Through the Viewfinder
- Retro effect using TtV photography.
- DIY Pinhole Cameras
- Free instructions for 23 cameras.
- About Pinhole Photography
- Information and tips.
- Fisheye Lens for an SLR
- DIY lens hack using a pair of glasses.
- Fisheye DIY for any Camera
- Video tutorial for a $5-10 hack.
- Painting with Light
- Help and info on this artistic technique.
- Time Machine
- Using old photos within new photos.
- Augmented Reality
- Using drawings, objects and photos within new location photos.
- Make a 3D Camera
- To produce stereographs.
- Zoom Effect
- Adding a simple starburst effect to photos.
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Creative Photography Methods
- Motion Blur
- Everything you would want to know.
- How to Capture Motion Blur
- More technical advice.
- Aerial Balloon Camera
- Take photos from a different perspective.
- Water Drop Photos
- How to photograph a water drop in a bubble.
- 88 Forced Perspective Photos
- Examples of fun shots you can do yourself.
- Holiday Souvenir Photos
- Bring your landmark souvenirs to life!
- Photo Chain
- To make a photo within a photo within a photo...
- Heart Shaped Bokeh
- Really pretty background lights effect.
- Artistic Lens Flare
- Taking photos into the sun.
- Time Lapse Photography
- Making a stop-motion video segment with photos.
Silhouettes
The A-Z of Creative Photography
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More Fun Photo Ideas
- High Speed Photography
- Great for capturing bubbles & water balloons bursting.
- Camera Toss
- I would personally use some sort of safety net for this!
- Water Drop Technique
- Impressive shots of water drops.
- Make Your Car Sparkle
- Use sparklers to outline your car in a photo.
- Capturing Light Trails
- Of cars and moving lights as they go by.
- Bokeh Shapes
- Create blurry background hearts or stars.
- Defying Gravity
- Create funny scenes horizontally.
- Spinning Children Photos
- How to get the classic blurred motion background.
- Panographies
- Assemble many photos together to create a panorama.
- Photography Round-Up
- Great list of techniques including infrared.
Heart Bokeh
A Variety of Things to Try
- Multiplicity
- 2 ways to create clones of people.
- Photographing Christmas Lights
- To create lovely bokeh.
- Taking Clone Photos
- A clear tutorial using the layer mask technique.
- Double Exposure
- How to combine 2 photos in one.
- Refractographs
- Photographing light after it's been refracted through glass.
- Slow Sync Flash
- Fun method for adding a blurred background.
- 'S' Shaped Bokeh
- Step-by-step instructions for the technique.
- DIY Hacks
- Including waterproof, fish-eye and soft focus photos.
- 50 Cent Macro Lens
- For point-and-shoots without one already.
- Aerial Kite Photography
- Aerial photos which are certainly cheaper than using a helicopter or plane!
Vaseline Photo
This photo by Darrell Hanley was created using a filter covered in vaseline in front of the lens.
To see how it's done, click here.
Even More Creative Techniques
- Making Light Stencils
- How to make stencils for awesome long exporsure photos.
- Light Stencil Animations
- Examples of what can be done using light stencils.
- Bubbles & Frozen Bubbles
- Info from an expert plus a bubble recipe.
- Sunprint Effect
- Use your photos to produce blue tone sunprints.
- Daily Levitations
- Just something you can do to add a fun element to daily photographs.
- Printing on Mulberry Paper
- A beautiful effect is produced by printing on handmade paper.
- More Bokeh Fun
- I particularly like the cloud bokeh idea.
- Making Cinemagraphs
- Quite an eerie effect created with photos and video.
- DIY Abstract Wall Art
- Deliberately blur photographs of colourful subjects.
Souvenir Photos
Cool Technique Ideas
- Underwater TtV Photos
- Did you know vintage cameras can go under the water?
- Aerial Balloon Photography
- This can also be done with kites and RC helipcopters.
- Using a Disposable Camera
- 20 creative ways to use a disposable film camera.
- HDTR Photographs
- What HDTR is and how you can do it.
- HDTR Photo Gallery
- Lots of the best examples to inspire you.
- Holiday Backdrop
- How to create a Christmas bokeh background for photos.
- 360 Degree Photos
- How to create a circular panoramic photograph.
- R/C Car Camera
- Attach your camera to a remote control car to get a different viewpoint.
- Drawing With LEDs
- Use LED lights to mix doodling with photography.
- Spinning Drill Photos
- Put a camera on a cordless drill to create blurred circle photos.
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jennajohnson868
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- Really cool post! I'll pass it along to my friend John I Dickerson. He really enjoys photography on his Canon 5D Mark II.
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- Thanks for the info
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snappycanvas
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- These are great photographs! I love the Painting with lights and Zoom effect! Perfect!
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- Hi Studentz, I need to photograph some large ( 1 metre x 400 cm) oil paintings, I couldn't find anything related to that on your lens, please let me know if you can offer some advice. Cheers.
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- A great lens. I can not wait to try some forced perspective and water drop photography. I plan on returning to this lens in the future. Thanks.
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