5 Photography hacks

5 Hacks Of Photography, Which Will Speed Up Your Photography Game

1 : Create Your Own Lightbox
For this photography hack, you will need a sheet of paper and tape. As you can see from the pictures below, you should tape the paper to a window first. Place your subject in front of the paper and switch your camera to Av mode (aperture to f/8, set the ISO to 100). After that, go to the Exposure Compensation and dial in +1 or +2, check your focus and shoot.
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2 : Make Custom Bokeh Shapes
For our next photography hack, you’ll need a DSLR camera, a lens with a large aperture (small F-stop number) and a bit of knowledge about bokeh photography. Let’s make a list of things needed for this hack.

1. A piece of black paper
2. Pencil
3. A pair of scissors
4. Duct tape
5. Craft knife to make different shapes.
6. Also, put on some Christmas light as if it was that time of the year.

Make a round tube that fits nicely to your lens, and connect it to the lens. On the other end of the tube, attach your cut paper as shown in the 2nd photo below. Then use a low aperture setting (for bokeh) and shoot in manual focus mode towards your light source through the cutout holes/shapes. You’ll need to adjust the focus ring to get the desired bokeh effect/shapes.
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3 : Thrilling Shadow Effects With a Tea Strainer
The old tea strainer is our next perfect photography hack. This is perfect if you want to use natural light through a window or small opening. Make sure the light is strong enough and the subject is close to the strainer. If you arrange it so, you can get strong shadows which cast beautiful patterns that highlight depth.
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4 : Hack Your Phone Camera to Take Macro Photos
Your phone camera can achieve great close-ups but you’ll need to follow this hack in order to get the most out of it. Follow these steps below:

1. Find some old laser pointer
2. Inside of the pointer, there is a focusing lens
3. Remove it for later use
4. Use a hairpin to hold the lens (as in image no.4)
5. Affix this it to your phone’s camera using tape
6. Take a picture ( we used coin as an example)
7. Zoom in if you want to see close-ups

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5 : Use A Business Card To Bounce Flash
Only two things are needed for this simple photography hack: a business card and a pair of scissors. Below we list the steps for this hack:

1. Pop your flash and mark the two arms of the flash (which connects it the camera body) on your business card
2. Cut the business card using scissors along the marked lines (about 1 cm deep)
3. Attach the business card to the flash as shown below and shoot away.

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