Holiday Photo Tips and 3 New Products from Canon, Tiffen & Shutterfly
Disclaimer: This is a sponsored post. All opinions are my own.
Heading into he holidays, there are lots & lots of pictures and videos to be taken. At a Lunch & Learn hosted by Techlicious at Quality Meats in NYC, I was introduced to some exciting new products and learned a few tips and tricks rom the experts!
- Use Burst Mode to ensure you get the shot. Burst Mode enables you to take multiple shots with one press of the shutter button. Start shooting when you anticipate the action and keep going.
- Use Sports mode to stop action. Sports Mode is designed to help you capture a moving object. The color will be more vibrant than if you shoot in other modes and bring the action to life, though, that it’s not as good a capturing true-to-life skin tones.
- Use Portrait Mode for pictures that focus on people. You’ll find you’re able to capture better skin tones and usually there’s a shorter depth of field so the background is slightly blurred to put emphasis on the person.
- Get down to eye level when shooting kids and pets. When shooting kids and pets, get down to their level for a more natural photo with better scale.
- Use Night Portrait Mode to capture a person and the background scene at night. If you want to capture a person with holiday lights behind them, you’ll need to expose for both the person and the background. The Night Portrait Mode is specifically designed to perform this task using both the flash and a slow shutter speed to pull in more details from the scene.
Cool Halloween Trick shots
- Create ghosts in your photos with multiple exposure mode. You can create ghosts in your photos by using the multiple exposure mode in your camera. Take a shot of a scene and then another shot with a person. The multiple exposure setting will combine the two shots, making the shot with the person somewhat transparent, or ghostly. The key here is using a tripod so the background remains exactly the same in each of the two shots.
- Add ghostly writing to a scene. You can add ghost writing by using a long exposure, ideally 30 seconds. You’ll need a tripod to keep your camera steady, a light source (flashlight or glow stick), and black gloves (to hold the light source). Once you’ve started the exposure, draw shapes or words with the light source. With your hands in the black gloves, they won’t be visible in the final shot. If you’re writing words, they’ll show up backwards in the image, but that’s easier to fix by flipping the image afterward than teaching yourself how to write backwards.
A few of the new products on display were:
Canon PowerShot G9 X Mark II $449.99
The PowerShot G9 X Mark II camera features an ultra-slim design with high performing features that create amazing image quality. This easily portable camera has a powerful 1.0-inch, 20.1 Megapixel CMOS sensor and is powered by the DIGIC 7 Image Processor for fast operation and features built-in Bluetooth® connectivity for easy sharing.
Tiffen Steadicam Volt $199.99
This lightweight easily portable smartphone stabilizer can be used with a number of phones with or without cases to provide extreme precision and control. Monica, of SoFamilyOnline took the Tiffen Steadicam out & here is what she had to say:
“I’m so happy I had the chance to review the Tiffen Steadicam Volt with my blogger bestie Scherrie. She knows how much I love doing video for my blog and for social media, so she called me as soon as she got her Steadicam Volt. And we seriously had fun testing it out.
Shutterfly Watercolor Patterned Frames Coaster $19.99
These photo coasters are the perfect way to display your photographs in a useful way. They are available in sets of four with a different image on each coaster and are perfect for cocktails & hot drinks. Make a set for yourself or as a gift for friends and family!
For more info check out #CTAPhotoNYC