Hey Everyone,

You may remember I posted a nice autumnal shot a while ago, as an inspiration to go out and get some great shots down in the Autumn, well, not that there isn’t still time, but Christmas is here now, and you can get some incredibly moving, and interesting shots around this time of year, I personally love it!

Lights
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Lights are one of the things that make Christmas nowadays, whether it be a really nice candle, or the lights on your Christmas tree, even one of those houses drenched in lights, they can all make interesting pictures, for example, this picture I took:

In my opinion this just oozes Christmas time, and I think that it was just so simple to take, all it is is a slightly long exposure of some lovely little Christmas candles, and you too can take photos just like this.

When you start getting out all your decorations, and getting things up, just try taking some pictures, although I advise that, taking pictures like this either requires a tripod, or something solid to rest your camera on, as for the beautiful glows, you really need to makes sure you have quite a long exposure, say, 1/2 to 1 second.

Ornaments
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Here you can put Macro Mode into action, the little ornaments hanging of the tree, or on the Christmas table, anything really with a twinkle, and you can make it into a lovely picture, for instance:

Just a simple shot of some Christmas sweets, but with a shallow dof, and very close in with the light shining off the foil, you can get a decorative, and attractive image. I really think that these are some of the really great Christmas pictures you see, if you look in shops, selling Christmas ornaments, I’m sure there’ll be blown up pictures, of extremely closeup ornaments and decoration.

People
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Nearly everyone is happy at Christmas, meaning it is the perfect time to get shots of the family, and of your friends, particularly if you get them without people knowing, because the result will be real happiness, none of this ‘cheese‘ stuff, you’ll get peoples actual emotions into an image, and a piece of advice that rarely fails, is try not to have people staring down the lens, get them off center, looking away, looking at someone else, anything like this will leave you with a much more natural and attractive picture that will make you want to frame it.

A little advice though, is that taking people will be a little harder around this time of year, sure, because people are hard anyway, but to get them from a distance generally means zoom, and with zoom you get shake, and no-one likes blur… so, jack up the ISO, wide open the aperture, and, there you go, you can get some, fairly crisp shots. Well, nothing that a bit of photoshop can’t fix.

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A quick insight into Christmas photography, brief, but hopefully factual.

Have a good one.

Charlie -