Photo Tips For Your Fall Girl Era:

It’s fall, you have your PSL life is good. You’re walking in the park with the fall coloured trees and want your friend to take a cute photo of you but it keeps falling short? One of the first things a photo mentor of mine a long time ago taught me was the beauty of shooting through objects. It’s a simple concept but it works.

In these photo’s with Justina I wanted to soften the image, a $4.99 sheer from value village did the trick. There was a hole in the fabric, RIP my washing machine.. so I put my lens through the hole and let the edge of the fabric cover part of it. The effect was the softness and interest that I was looking for in the photo. having this bit of blurred mystery adds questions and emotion to your images. This season is perfect for added colour, as your in the park looking for that perfect photo, put a coloured leaf at the base of your lens so you’re shooting over it and the base of your photo will be this brilliant fall colour. Or shoot through some leaves so the focus will be you but the foreground will be this rich blurred colour.

This technique translates to romanticized images as well as political sharp images. Look at documentary photos on the front of newspapers, you will notice a trend that the person they are photographing is shot through a window, or through the carvings of a gate. Keep your eyes peeled and you’ll see what I mean.

Works every time - so this is my info gift to you this thanksgiving…go shoot through things! Have fun!

xo Marley