Top 6 Tricks To Use In Photography

Trick photography gives you the opportunity to hone your photography skills and have fun while creating cool pictures. Some trick photography techniques are very simple to perform. With these techniques you are only required to adjust your camera in a specific way in order to get the right shot that'll make the photo look extraordinary or more interesting.

On the other hand, some techniques will call for you to do editing with software to properly create the trick photograph you want.



Even if you're a complete beginner with no trick photography experience it's not difficult to learn the techniques and soon be creating awesome photos that'll impress your family and friends.

If you're ready to take your photography experience to another level and start having fun with trick photography here are the top techniques for producing trick photos you can start experimenting with.

1. Forced Perspective Photography

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With forced perspective photography you can create photos that give the illusion that objects are much bigger, smaller, nearer or further away than other objects in a photo.

For example, in a forced perspective shot you can make your hand appear bigger than your house or car. Forced perspective is one of the simplest trick photography techniques to pull off.

All you'll need to do is get the right distance between the elements involved and the right position of the camera.

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You can create really impressive forced perspective photos with the use of your camera only, without any need for digital editing.

2. Rotation 

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Rotation photography is another very simple way of creating cool photographs. It's simply a matter of shooting a nice scene and rotating the photo sideways or upside down to get shots that makes the scene appear extraordinary.

The trick to this technique is to shoot something that when rotated has a completely different meaning to reality. For example, if you stand with the front part your body facing a wall and your both hands placed upon it, and take a picture and rotate it ninety degrees, it would look as if you're crawling horizontally across the wall.

In the picture above the upside down rotation makes the subject looks like she is hanging above the sky when in reality she is just lying on the ground.

3. Levitation Photography

Levitation photography

Levitation photography is creating pictures with a person or thing rising into the air. It's a really cool trick that can make viewers taken away because it usually gives the illusion that the subject is controlled by supernatural forces.

It's possible to get a levitation shot of a person by having them jump into the air and snap right when they're elevated from the ground. However, you can create much more mind-blowing levitation pictures by having the subject pose while resting on something then using Photoshop to edit the image.

This would include properly masking out the object the person was resting on and maybe editing the background as well to make the picture look realistic.

4. Long Exposure Photography

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Long exposure photography is a technique that involves using a long-duration shutter speed to sharply capture the blurring or trailing effects created by some form of motion of an object in the scene or the camera.

Most cameras especially the DSLRs allow you to set and change the shutter speed manually to set it slower which will allow you to capture these type of effects in long exposure.

For example, photographing a moving train or car in long exposure will show their motion in a blurry effect. Also, the path of a moving light source such as a flash light or lazer pen can be clearly captured by a camera's shutter that's set to long exposure.

Photographers take advantage of this opportunity to create a variety of artful light effects in pictures. This technique is called 'light painting'.

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You do not need photo editing software to create awesome long exposure images. But you can edit your pictures with software to enhance it's appearance by adding different colours etc.

5. Multiplicity Photography

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Multiplicity Photography is a technique by which the same subject is photographed from different angles and in different positions in the same frame and then the batch of photographs are digitally edited to create one picture with the subject appearing in it multiple times. To make multiplicity photography more stunning the subject can have different clothing on and be doing different things in each shot.

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This technique must be partly done with Photoshop because it requires special editing from the software to create this type of photograph.

6. 360x180 Planet Panoramas

360x180 Planet Panoramas

360x180 Planet Panoramas involves taking a series of pictures in a circle, stitching them together to create one picture and wrapping it around in a circle so it appears in the shape of a planet or tunnel.

Creating this type of image requires taking several pictures while moving in a circular motion and the use of a software called Hugins for editing to get the final picture.

Conclusion

These are just some of the top trick photography techniques that you can start experimenting with as part of your artistic photography challenge. They're fun to do and can produce some spectacular results with a bit of vision and creativity.