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10 Simple Tips to Show Your Christmas Photography Skills

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Photography and Christmas seem to go hand in hand. So, here are 10 Christmas photography tips to make sure those photos turn out great. 1) Use lower apertures: Create beautiful bokeh in your Christmas background lights by dropping your apertures. The image below is shot on a Canon 5D Mark III with a Canon 50mm f1.2 lens at F2.0. Of course, you have to be very accurate with your focus at such shallow depth of fields, but if you can get your subjects sharp, the low apertures will really make your images pop and bring out those beautiful background Christmas lights. If your lens is capable, try staying at f2.8 or below. 2) Use natural light (avoid flash): If you’re looking to create natural, warm and moody images, make sure you turn off your flash for some (if not most) of your photos. This allows the ambient light of the Christmas lights or fireplace to show up in your images and allows parts of the scene to fall off into shadow. 3) Use Christmas props: For Christmas p...

Children Christmas Photography

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In a previous article, we spoke a bit about how you could capture some amazing shots of Christmas decorations both inside and out. This festive season I would like to share a few more tips with you just to make sure this Christmas brings you nothing but pure joy. You could probably consider this an early gift or a gift that keeps on giving. Today we will be talking about how you can capture some adorable shots during Christmas of the little babies or kids. When I was a child I could remember always looking forward to this season, not only because my birthday was the day before Christmas but it was the season of gifts and amazing food from the family.  As a child, Christmas was nothing short of amazing with new toys and sometimes even money from family members. However, as we become adults, Christmas becomes an expense and we become more excited about the food than the gifts or sometimes even both. This does not mean that we can’t make it amazing for the little humans arou...