Australian Photography

SHAKE IT UP

Expand your creativity with these unique photography ideas.

As photographers, we’re always searching for that next picture-perfect moment to cherish and share with the world, but if we just shoot the same subjects over-and-over again, photography has a funny habit of becoming repetitious.

I find the best way to avoid this is to mix things up by trying different techniques both in-camera and in post-production. The best part is a lot of these techniques won’t cost you a cent - just some time and your imagination. So, let’s take a look at a few.

1 GAIN GRAIN

Sometimes ‘rules’ are made to be broken, and on the subject of noise, clean noise-free images aren’t always better. So why not embrace the beauty of grain and use it to create more moody pictures? While this may seem counter-intuitive, increasing your ISO to a higher value to create

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