Read photography tips and tricks
for taking Christmas and holiday pictures and photographs during for
Christmas season.
Christmas & Holiday Pictures
Family gatherings and Christmas festivities are some of the most
memorable time of our lives and to capture these happy moments help us
to go through the photographs and videos and relive those moments again
and again. They make excellent fun discussion topics during holiday
family gatherings even after several years. Here are some simple tips
and tricks to catch wonderful moments on your camera or camcorder:
- Amateurs still love to use traditional 35mm cameras with color film or the disposable cameras. However, digital cameras are little expensive but give you much better results.
- Be aware of the angles and poses of your family members and where to make them stand in group-family-photographs to make them look better.
- In a digital camera, there are more options for clicking a photograph as desired and you can also review your shots in a window. It also makes it easy to download the picture from camera to your computer, edit them using various software and applications and send them to family and friends via email attachments.
- Prepare backgrounds and areas where your family members can pose to get some of their best photographs. The area should not be too bright or dark and should not be very busy or it may disturb you or spoil the effect of your subject.
- Start taking pictures much before holidays and practice shots of tree lights, outdoor lights, decorations and candles beforehand so you can assess the flash range of the camera and the appropriate shutter speed to use. This is also the time, when you can capture some of the most funny moments of live action footage when people just mess up the decoration work and lighting and other holiday preparations while bragging that they are experts at it. You can also shoot children playing outside, which looks quite interesting and cute and also records the weather conditions of the time.
- Stock up well on color film rolls during holiday family and friend gatherings, so that you can catch any spontaneous hilarious moment.
- You can also use holiday related props that can add a bit of fun to your Christmas season pictures.
