{ Weird Photography Tricks }

Some times it can be hard to keep up with all the tips and trick on the Internet when it comes to photography, so here are some tricks that will hopeful help you take some amazing photographs.

{1} No tripod? Just use a lamp instead.

Want to take a group photo but you don't have a tripod to place your camera, just whip the lamp shade off a lamp and screw your camera onto the lampshade holder. The thread size of the bolt on a lamp shade is perfect to fit because its the same size as the filter thread used on tripod making your camera easy to attach.

{2} Put a PEZ Dispenser on your hotshoe.

When it comes to taking photos of children it can be hard to get their attention. Really the only way to get their attention is to give them an old fashion bribe. The perfect solution is to buy a simple PEZ dispenser and put it on the hotshoe of your camera. The base of the PEZ is a tiny bit wider than the standard hotshoe, so you may have to trim it sightly before the shoot. When your ready and most importantly the kids is ready and looking at the PEZ dispenser. You can have them come up and grab a little candy periodically during the shoot.

{3} Day to night in a flash

One trick is to turn up the power on the flash to the max, obviously this will make the subject extremely bright. If you change the camera setting to expose the subject, it will make the background look extremely dark because the flash didn't hit it. This makes it look like it's night time even if  it's the middle of the day. Click here to read more about this technique 

{4} Take your lens off for macro photography

If you take off your lens and hold it in front of the camera, you get a macro lens. There are four things you need to know about using this trick. {1} Your camera won't take a picture with the lens off unless you're in manual mode. {2} The best focal length seems to be around 50mm or an 18-55mm kit lens. {3} You will lose auto focus since your lens isn't attached to the camera.You can gain focus by moving closer or further away from the subject {4}The camera can't open up the aperture, so you'll have to do it with your hands.

{5} Delete tourist from your travel photos

This is an awesome trick for travel photograph. {1} Set your camera on a tripod. {2} Take a picture every 10 seconds until you have about 15 shots, depending on how fast people are walking around you. {3} Open all the images in Photoshop by going to File > Script > Statistics. Choose "median" and select the files you took. {4} Photoshop finds what is different in the photos and simply removes it. Since the people moved around, it fills the area where someone was standing with part of another photo where no was there. If your working in the Photoshop Extened or the Creative Cloud version of Photoshop, Step 3 is a bit different you go to Enhance > Photomerge > Scene Cleaner.

{6} Shaped bokeh out of paper

This is a simple way to change the shape of light that is shown in your image. All you have to do is cut out a piece of black paper the size of the front element on your lens. Then use a razor blade to cut a shape on in the middle of the paper. The shape should be slightly larger than a thumbnail or around the size of a nickel.

Hopeful these tricks come in handy in your next photograph adventure.