Tutorial & DIY | Holiday Set Ups (Part I)
Specific holiday photo set ups don’t have to be overly complex… Swearsies! In fact, the more complicated they are, the more “on” the kiddos will feel and you might not nail as natural of a shot as you might have hoped for. Over the next little bit, watch here for some ideas — both obvious and not so much — for some placed holiday photos with your little ones!
This is my niece, L…
Aperture Priority @ f/4, ISO 400
This is so relaxed, it definitely doesn’t scream ‘holiday photo’; while the tree is visible in the background and gives off all those funky fairy dots due to the 10 ft or so of space between it and the wee one, it’s not completely ‘in ya face’ as if I had L sitting right up next to it.
Aperture Priority @ f/3.5, ISO 200
This is extremely simple by design; using a holiday trinket and a party dress and plunking her on a pillowless bed in a room with tons of natural light makes it seasonal but not suffocatingly so.
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