When I first started photography I didn’t realise how to crop a photo to get a better looking shot.
Now when I say crop this can be done in two ways
First and best is to crop in camera ! To crop in camera simply means using the full field of view of the sensor/lens. This will give you the best quality image and use all the megapixels to best advantage.
Second way is to crop in post. This isn’t a good as the first option, as it lowers the resolution of the image by taking away vital megapixels
But when you’re learning it’s one of the first ways to find what looks best! As sometimes you don’t see the full picture until you get into post. Where you then see that ‘ oh that looks better’ moment!
A few simple rules when cropping are not to cut limbs off such as fingers and such like!
Now this post isn’t going to be about the full depth of cropping! It’s just going to be a simple idea that cropping a body in the right place !
Below are three images to give you a better idea!
3/4 crop image Cutting the legs of here give a much more pleasing look than cropping lower towards the knees you could crop a little lower but be very carful not to go to low! 1/2 Crop – this is a stunning crop for boudoir style shoots and for fashion too. Though with this shot the rule of not cropping limbs is used selectively but done to a point where it’s still pleasing to the eye. This 1/4 crop is used more for portrait and beauty Cropping here give a much closer shot of the subject and when shot like this in camera give plenty of detail to work with ! It almost makes the subject lifelike and in the same room!
The above is just a little of whats needed to create a more pleasing image! Over the coming weeks I will post a more in-depth post for what to look for and how to capture the images in camera
Until next time please feel free to try this and tag me on Instagram to show me how you got on! @adriandayphotography and please feel free to like and comment! Too
It’s definitely been a new process for me, getting to grips with creating content for my YouTube channel! One showing what I can do and two learning that process of editing ! With out buying into a big program like adobe premier pro right away!
I’ve managed to do a few videos and post them up! I like the out come, again this is all done using mobile editing ! But still these are in 1080p or 4K so that’s not so bad on quality as YouTube will render the video in algorithm if it’s low quality and put it way down the list of showing!
If you would like to see the two videos click on the images below and please give it a like and maybe even a follow on my account!
Been a little time in the making or should I say in the doing!
But to end 2019 I finally put the plan into action and started selling images from locations I’ve shot!
Having posted images to a number of sites and asked the question who would buy ? And got some great feed back I hope that this will be a worth while thing
I would really love to see what people think and would be super happy to know that people want my art on their walls.
If you’re interested in buying or checking out some of the images take a look at the link below
This week we have been learning to create some ver basic video content for out YouTube channel!
We have some way to go to perfect it but content is now starting to pop up! A few new videos have gone live this week
And we have a new one coming out in 24 hours time where I edit an image using lightroom mobile to create the image you will see below !
So head over to our channel and give it a follow, would be great to have you come along as we start out on our adventure it would be great to have some likes and shares so on! And hope that you will stick with me as I learn and build my channel!
It seems that a lot of photographers have gone with the flow of the season!
Working with the beautiful colours that this time of year brings along with the dark nights and indoor shoots for a number of studio shoots !.
The last few weeks we have been gearing up for the busy time of year where all the parties start and portraits and portfolio start being the thing!
I got one love this time of year! I love the colours the cosy nights by the fire and closing those curtains early shutting out the windy weather and those days of rain!
But I also love shooting in this too! Will be getting to grips with a few shoots over The coming weeks leading up to Christmas and new year!
Having been a busy year shooting and working on projects I’m definitely looking forward to the coming months ahead
Below are just a few of our latest edits out the editing room comment below what’s your favourite image
When life and business gets out of hand and you have so much to do there is very little time to get online to update everyone what we have been doing and what special offers we are currently running!
A little update while I have a few minutes.
Firstly we are running some new deals starting October 1st that will be up and running just for 14 days but I’m sure that people will love the deals and definitely will be something not to miss !
Another deal will be the “early booking deal” Book now for next month (November) and will give you double the digital images so that you can have more images to keep or use for Christmas gifts
More info coming soon or you can email us to ask for latest deals
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And to finish we have been shooting a lot of private client work lately, so we can’t post them up on our social pages or even our website
but we have some images from the last months editing room!
It was a pleasure working with Alana on a new shoot! She is definitely fun to work with and we managed to get some lovely images in our short shoot slot!
Normally we set aside a 3 hour window so that we get a number of outfits and a lot of poses in each outfit!
This shoot was a shorter shoot time of two hours so it tested us a little !
Taking into account that we had five shoots booked in so ten hours of booked shoot time and then getting ready for the next client it was a fast think on your feet day!
With Each client changing around 5 times some did more! But having lighting set up and keeping a constant flow of ideas is what made this happen !
With most shoots we plan out what’s going to happen so we know we get the shots! This shoot was a little more think on our feet ! Short notice new lighting small space!
But I think we managed it!
What do you all think here are a few of the images from the shoot definitely a mix of lovely images
Let us know what you think always welcome a comment !
I’ve been thinking the last few months where the money could be in this art of photography!
Some may say family portraits, weddings and baby photography.
I’ve looked at things the last few weeks and have seen that there are very few automotive photographers based in the UK and there is definitely a call for people wanting pictures of their pride and joy!
Not only the small business shoots in automotive but then there is the big fish working for companies shooting cars for sale or hire
Maybe even working for the main stream car companies like Ford or Mercedes who need images !
The hard part is can anyone who does photography have the ability to create pleasing automotive images that would make a client happy !
As people may know, I’m normally a portrait and boudoir photographer.. but at the weekend I set myself a small goal and took on the chance of shooting a car show !
I got some pretty good shots I think and managed to capture the beauty of a Ford Focus RS which was a beautiful car that truly captured my eye!
I think this could be something I may have to add to my list of potential shoots … With a little training I’m sure that I can get this down and give clients more than the quality work they are looking for at a great price !
Take a look at these images below and let me know what you think!