While doing a winter photo shoot in December, I accidentally ended up taking a photo and it turned out amazing, or something happened in the background of the photo to make it look how it does.
Here are the stories...
I use coconut oil to moisten my hair at night. So the day before this photo, I had put oil In my hair like always. The next day, I woke up to discover the water was down! I twisted the sides up my hair and put all the access hair up into a bun. Outside, I didn’t think the hair-do exactly matched the feel of the photos I was going for, so I undid my hair. What do you know? The coconut oil had hardened in my hair in the -12 Alaskan weather! My hair stayed this way for the whole shoot—now I recommend siding this (if you don’t mind the grease!) for long photo shoots in windy cold weather. :D
My sister,Isabella, happened to walk up behind me while I was shooting someone else and I snapped a photo of her. Unintentionally, this photo turned out to be one of the best of the whole shoot! Try to aim and be prepared to look at things from different angles and the unexpected can turn out to be the best sometimes!
Props. They add another element to your photography, they give the viewer something more to look at in the photo. I pay my younger siblings (10 of us!) a few dollars to carry around my backpack with all my little probs in it. The book here is Everything She Didn’t Say by Jane Kirkpatrick
Look at your pictures from all angles. This picture was originally Florianna posing on a large rusted can. The wind and her face looked wonderful so I zoomed in and voila!
Joy was about to blow the snow here, and I took the picture quickly before she did. I think it turned out better, and the her face in the photo gives it a dramatic/ fierce look. Like I said, be ready for the unexpected! A wise photographer once said,” never shut your camera off at anytime of the photo shoot—you’ll be sure to miss something if you do!” I most sertaitly agree.
