WANT to plan an interesting still life photoshoot with your camera? 1. Plan ahead of time The well-known saying, If you fail to plan you are planing to fail is also true for a photoshoot. By making use of a mood board, you can plot all your ideas in one place and visually can see what feel and look one’s after. We created a couple of ideas on how to prepare for your next social media story. 2. Create a mood board Mood boards help one to create a feel and look that’s visually pleasing to the eye. Keep an open in as to what the right solution for your ideas might be. Once you know what direction you want to take, collect inspirational photos.
Use a diagonal line from one corner to the other to line up the subjects in the picture. When you’re on set, the sketch is not set in stone. It gave you a good idea what to move around on the set, things might change. By keeping your preplanning in mind, one can change things up while keeping the rules of thirds and negative space composition in mind.
Ask yourself questions like, what is the story I want to tell, in this case the story I am imagining is someone who is writing for long hours on end and got tired. All these elements are contextualized in a bed room, an intimate moment. Midday light fills the room. 3. Notebook + Ipad Make a square to imagine the parameters of the room and which part you will take the photograph. Write the plan down to help you not forget what you will do. Take into account what format you want to use it for, like for facebook, Instagram, pinterest? This way it’s easy to upload the image into your social media feed. Using the rule of thirds to place the important subjects on the lines. In this case the red shoes and teacup are the main characters in this image which lies at an intersection point. The red shoes, because of their bright colour, dominates this scene.
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