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# 7 Get ghostly with puddles O Photography affords us endless creative possibilities, especially when it comes to capturing reflections. Sigge Labor (500px. com/siggelabor) discovered this when shooting for an Instagram competition. “I love capturing the impossible and turning a crazy idea into reality. I was inspired to take this shot by an Instagram weekly hashtag project called #WHPfunwithreflections. Luckily for me, it had just rained, so I went out to find the closest puddle with my sister, who’d kindly volunteered to model for me. “I took two shots with the same angle and settings. In the first picture I had my sister standing in the shoes to get her reflection, and in the second I shot just the shoes. I then edited the images together in Photoshop.”
Above Use a fast shutter speed in order to totally freeze your subject, such as 1/100sec.
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O Colourful sunsets don’t just lend themselves to epic landscapes. Use them for creative still lifes instead, just like Thrasivoulos Panou (thrasivoulos.gr). “After a rainy day in my hometown of Volos, Greece, the sky opened and I knew it would be the ideal time to go out and take some photos at the port. This open place would be the best location for
my shoot, as the vastness would let me draw the audience’s eyes to my main subject, the miniature taxi. “I wanted to make the small cab look almost like a normal car, so used a shallow depth-of-field to create a blurry background. I also got down low to the ground so as to get the best angle, although the earlier rain meant I ended up getting a bit wet!”
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