Summer Photography Tips
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Photo Tips for Expressing Summer
Summer in Indiana is hot, hot, hot, and throw in humid too.
Yet, it is a wonderful time to be outdoors - hearing children playing, birds singing, and seeing flowers blooming.
What is it you most enjoy about summer and how can you express it in a photograph? On this page, you will find tips and ideas for photographing summer.
At the end of this page, you will find a free, downloadable worksheet to help you identify your feelings about this season.
Capture Color
Be on the lookout for nice backdrops to color.
In this image to your right, I came across this lush, blooming bush against a light brick building at Notre Dame College in Indiana. The pink blooms and green foliage are very emblematic of summer colors.
But color is not just found in flowers. What about bikes, boats in the water, flags, and fresh vegetables?
“Enjoy those lazy, crazy, hazy days of summer.”
Capture Activities
Summer is a time for being outdoors, preferably near water.
Try capturing events associated with summer - like picnics, farmers markets, swimming, boating or a baseball game. In Indianapolis, Indiana, where I live, summer is a great time to be at the park.
The image above was taken on Lake Maxincuckee in Culver, Indiana.
Capture Fireworks
Tips for Photographing Fireworks and other Summer Activities
Here are my five tips for summer photography, then read on for more at the links below.
1. When the sun is bright, use fill flash (outdoors) to brighten faces or objects. Why? Your camera will automatically dial down the exposure if the sun is bright, plus the sun creates dark shadows.
2. Use a fast shutter speed to freeze motion. Summer is a great time to get stop action photographs.
3. When photographing flowers, try to get some different angles. Shooting flowers from underneath can produce some dramatic effects.
4. Don't forget those great sunsets or just evening light. The summer light in evening can really warm up a scene.
5. Get spontaneous shots of people having fun outdoors.
- How to Photograph Fireworks
- Darren Rowse - Digital Photography School
- Photographing Fireworks
- by Geoff Lawrence
- Photographing Summer
- Kodak shows you how to get those Kodak moments.
- How to Nail Five Summer Moments with the Perfect Photo
- Brought to you by The Coolist
- How to Capture Fireworks
- Squidoo page by deyani
A Summer Day
"I do know how to pay attention,
how to fall down into the grass,
how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed,
how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing
all day." ~ by Mary Oliver
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Thank You for Visiting
What do you like to photograph in summer?
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nmstern
May 30, 2012 @ 7:40 pm | delete
- Thanks for these tips. They were good reminders of what to keep in mind when I grab the camera this summer. I love photographing my children. Every moment seems so precious, I want them to have some to look back on.
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The_Micro_Farm_Project May 20, 2012 @ 8:08 pm | delete
- Enjoyed reading this. Thanks!
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flycatcher
May 19, 2012 @ 10:18 pm | delete
- Backlit flowers are fun to photograph. When the light shines through the petals, the colour has the intensity of stained glass.
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CameronPoe
May 19, 2012 @ 2:20 am | delete
- My image of summer is more beach, than anything. Perhaps it's because I live in Southern California, but not by the beach. And that's where I love to spend the summer.
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Beameye
May 18, 2012 @ 7:14 pm | delete
- Thank you for the beautiful pictures.
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