9 Experiments You Can Do With Your Camera

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One of the best ways to learn about photography is to try different things. It's like the old saying "practice makes perfect" so you need to try different things to improve your skills. Photography can be a powerful medium when used correctly. You can use it to capture ideas, feelings, and emotions. The problem is, that photography is more than just pressing a button. There is a whole science and art behind it. You can also use it to create abstract art or even as a way of communicating with alien species. In this blog, we will look at 9 experiments you can try out to see the different kinds of art you can make with your camera.

DOUBLE EXPOSURES

Numerous cameras provide double exposure settings that enable the blending of two photos. This can also be accomplished in Photoshop, but doing it on the camera will provide surprising and perhaps astounding results. In addition, using the camera's double capability will give you a better understanding of how two photographs merge. It is difficult to anticipate how two photographs will merge in terms of their highlights, shadows, and framing. However, with some practice, you will be able to master double exposure.

ALTERNATIVE FILTERS Filters can be far more versatile than neutral density or polarizing filters. A filter is anything in front of the lens. Wrap your lens in cling film or a sheer cloth. Or locate an opaque surface, such as an old window with bent glass, a plastic container, or running water. Using different photographic filters will provide distinct effects in your photographs. Additionally, you may create unique bokeh effects by cutting a shape out of an index card and holding it in front of your camera. Check around the home to see what toys you have available. Some alternate filters will appeal to you, while others may not. This is the excitement of experimentation. It is all about artistic photographic exploration

LIGHT ARTWORK

In the last year, individuals have experimented with everything from flashlights to glowsticks to fire whips in light painting.

This technique allows you to "paint" an image (or pattern) in your photograph by setting a long exposure period and waving lights within the lens' field of vision. This is comparable to trying to spell one's name with a sparkler. You can see the remaining lines where the sparkler is waved. You may catch all of this motion using a camera. You may also use light painting to selectively illuminate your subject in a dim or completely dark room by using a flashlight. This allows you to regulate the amount and direction of all the scene's light.

PROJECTED PICTURE

By projecting light, forms, and colors onto a surface, a picture may be given depth. The surface might be a person, an item, or simply a background. Some photographers use green screens as a backdrop for their subjects.

Later, the green screen is replaced by amazing backgrounds. Using a projection method, portrait photography may be experimental and even abstract. Eric Burke produces photographic body art by projecting shapes and textures onto his models using projectors.

FREELENSING

This approach provides the effect of a tilt-shift lens without having to spend $1000 on a lens. To accomplish this, remove the lens from your camera, put the camera to manual mode (auto exposure and focus will be disabled, unfortunately), and position the lens perpendicular or parallel to the sensor.

This will modify your plane of focus, resulting in really fascinating and distinctive photographs. Problematic is simultaneously holding your camera and lens while attempting to focus and adjust the exposure. Additionally, several cautions against getting dust and other contaminants within the camera.

MIRRORING

In Photoshop, mirroring involves duplicating and inverting a picture to produce a reflection.

In Photoshop, mirroring is one of the numerous different photographic techniques available. Mohit Bansal Chandigarh uses this method to produce water reflections that may not have existed in reality (but should have!). One may easily turn the image vertically using Photoshop. To give realism to the scene, ripple filters should be incorporated.

TIMELAPSE

Assuming your camera has a built-in intervalometer, this method is free.

You may always get an external intervalometer for $20-$30 if yours does not. A timelapse is a collection of still photographs that, when displayed in rapid succession, generate a scene-acceleration video.

So you might set up your camera at a construction site or a port and let it shoot photographs for five hours, then generate a short film that condenses the five hours into, say, three minutes. Timelapses are most effective in locations where there is a great deal of motion and activity.

CAMERA-BASED EFFECTS

Numerous digital cameras provide built-in photo effects. Mohit Bansal Chandigarh gives examples of toy camera effects, selective color, and posterization on my Sony A7II. These effects alter the visual appearance of your images.

Others add a painting appearance while others apply a color filter.

Choose an effect, and your camera will automatically apply it to every photo you take. Check the menu of your camera to discover what photo effects are available.

There may be dozens of alternatives available for experimentation.

UNIQUE BOKEH SHAPES

Bokeh is the art of using out-of-focus light spots inside an image. It is especially noticeable in photographs with a short depth of field, in which the background lights appear as little circles of light. The geometry of these points is dictated by the shape of the aperture, which is typically circular. On a camera with fewer aperture blades, a hexagonal or octagonal pattern may be visible. You may alter the form of these points, though, by constructing your aperture. Simply cut out a very little object from a piece of paper, such as a star or a heart, then tape it to the lens hood of your camera. If you fully open your camera's aperture and snap a photograph, any outof-focus light spots will show in this form.

This is most effective with small, concentrated light sources, such as distant street lamps or festive lights.