Amaze everyone with sensational photos: discover useful tips to give your photos appeal
Taking a good photo is much more often a matter of perspective and ideas than of the quality of the camera with which the subject is immortalized. With the right inspiration, in fact, even an ordinary smartphone can take breathtaking shots - those good enough to be successfully shared on social networks, or perhaps to be framed.
A photographer from Barcelona, Jordi Puig, has made this his working philosophy: in taking pictures, in fact, he always seeks a new perspective, using objects of all kinds to create interesting scenes. There is certainly a lot of retouching and editing in post production, but just seeing how everyday objects, placed in the proper way in front of the lens of a camera or a mobile phone, can create dynamic images, is very instructive.
You will need a subject and someone to help you behind the scenes to replicate this photo. You will also need to get a giant ice cream cone and some colored sugar candy - then, you will be ready to copy this shot. It could work with colored sugar candy tails too (like liquorice)!
This is an idea that will surely appeal to all fans of the famous Korean TV series, Squid Game: draw in chalk (on a wall, or similar) the symbols displayed by the guards in the game and then just back light three people wearing a sweat suit with hoodies, superimpose the images, and you will have replicated the dystopian atmosphere of the deadly game.
An idea for a Halloween photo: a shoe box, some glue and lots of dirt will create the impression of having the point of view of a person buried in a grave.
With simple frames inserted into the ground (or even better, at the beach), you can create a very beautiful surreal image, which exploits the colors of the sky and the reflections of the water in an artistic way.
In Jordi Puig's Instagram feed (@Jordi Koalitic), you will find lots of photographs that use various objects to focus the viewer's attention on a particular detail. In the case of faces, it is often the eyes of the models that are highlighted, and here is a wheel of colored pencils glued to a metal support. And if you noticed, the colours are also replicated in the model's iris!
Do you know the springs that kids play with - the ones that go down the steps of a staircase (sometimes called slinkys)? You can place them in front of the lens and easily recreate this shot with your friends and family.
And if you want to give the impression of having being bathed by a cone of light rays, you will simply need a perfectly clean and transparent plastic bottle.
This, on the other hand, is the incredible result obtained by placing a metal cutlery drying rack (without its bottom) in front of the lens, while it is wet with a little water (be careful not to damage the camera!).
A thin nylon thread, then erased in post-production editing, gives the impression that the stone was actually thrown at that very moment!
Would you like to recreate these photos?
