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Hmmm, I think what'd help you is to work with your lighting. Make sure it's not too bright, and not too dark. I use LED lights and diffuse it with white tissue paper screens. Here's some of what myself and Shenanigans have done when do our Photoshoots! visitors can't see pics , please register or loginvisitors can't see pics , please register or loginvisitors can't see pics , please register or loginThe first is obviously with a back ground of paper stock, which was chosen for its complimentary colors. the second was late afternoon sun. The third was plain white poster board. You can make your own phototaking areas with appropriate lighting and scenarios The best you can do though is just embrace the twitchy finger and snap lots of pics to see what works for you I hope some of this was a little helpful
Lots of great advice (and pictures!) in this thread! I haven't much to add (my photography is terrible) but applejackbunny, I love the picture in your first post of Sealight, and the picture of Baby Stockings and Merry Treats! Mine are mother and daughter too.
A few examples:visitors can't see pics , please register or loginJust the pony, without any accessories or decoration.visitors can't see pics , please register or loginPony with her accessoriesvisitors can't see pics , please register or loginPony with some simple decorationI'm still not completely content with everything, the lightning could be improved, and I need some additional backgrounds for more variety. But maybe I could provide a bit of inspiration!
There's been some great advice on here. My number one thing to avoid at all cost is using the flash on my camera - any of my cameras. Flash is unpredictable, washes out your subject, darkens your background, creates big deep shadows, etc. I just avoid it at all costs. Good lighting really does make a huge difference in photos - I won't rehash what others have already said in that area, but trust me, getting a few extra lights to use for picture taking is worth it. And if you're me, you spend ages making big elaborate set pieces, props, and backgrounds for a pony photo shoot for no real reason, haha. visitors can't see pics , please register or loginvisitors can't see pics , please register or login
This is an interesting thread!!! One of my favourites things about ponies is take pictures of them In this thread you have a lot of amazing tips, I just will add my own experience I haven't profesional camera, I use the Note 3 Samsung smartphone and I love it I haven't light equipment and the lighting in my room is awful (yellow and dark light), so I prefer to take pictures outside, if there is a sunny day better, but the sun hasnt to be so strong because the pic could have weird shadows, so maybe it is better for me a sunny and little cloudy day.But sometimes I want to take pics and I cant go outside, so I have to work in my bedroom with the awful light, and plus I dont like to use the flash because the backgrounds look so dark in that way...When that happens I edit the pictures with two programs: Photoscape in my computer and then Line Camera in my smartphone. If you don´t know about these I super recommend them, they are so helpful and for free, you dont have to pay those apps!! With Photoscape you can fix the lighting, the white things that look yellowy can be converted in white again, then with Line Camera you have tons of amazing filters, stickers and frames. I love the filters because with some you can enhance the colors without changing too much their real tones, and if you havent matching accesories for the pony model maybe you can use some stickers And for the backgrounds I havent rules. I take pics of all the ponies I bought, and I just decide wich background I will use looking at the pony, other times I prefer to go outsie and make some shoots with natural backgrounds and light but it all depends on the pony.Here some examples of my pics, I have a lot more in my Tumblr and Instagram if you want too see them (links in my sig) The tipical white background, but I have added some flowers to make them more colorful and in the last just white stickers and frame because I wanted to fill the pic with something visitors can't see pics , please register or loginvisitors can't see pics , please register or loginvisitors can't see pics , please register or login I made two posters with Hasbro art, one of the G3 Ponyville and other of the Rainbow Castle, I use a lot those backgrounds, but I add for each pony different accesories, elements or stickers with the Line Camera app visitors can't see pics , please register or loginvisitors can't see pics , please register or loginvisitors can't see pics , please register or login Natural background and accesories: You can take pictures using the sky as background, or using grass or another natural thing, I also love to find pretty flowers, but well, I see that you already used this, your garden pictures are so cute and pretty! visitors can't see pics , please register or loginvisitors can't see pics , please register or loginvisitors can't see pics , please register or loginvisitors can't see pics , please register or loginvisitors can't see pics , please register or loginvisitors can't see pics , please register or login Weird backgrounds: Maybe near your house or in it you have a mosaics table, a little puddle, an interesting window or glass or something weird like that and you think that it is ugly to take pictures, but with an edition effect or filter maybe it looks cool, I've learned that almost by chance, many times the shoots that I thought were the worst after the edition were the best visitors can't see pics , please register or loginvisitors can't see pics , please register or loginvisitors can't see pics , please register or loginvisitors can't see pics , please register or loginvisitors can't see pics , please register or loginvisitors can't see pics , please register or login And the last I will say: When I go to take a walk to a pretty place or to a nice restaurant or coffee shop I put a pony in my bag You never knows where you will find a nice view to take a picture, for example if I go to the Japanese Garden of my city (Buenos Aires), a pony family always comes with me lol visitors can't see pics , please register or loginvisitors can't see pics , please register or loginvisitors can't see pics , please register or loginvisitors can't see pics , please register or loginvisitors can't see pics , please register or login
You can also make a light box really easily with a cardboard box ( size dependent on project ) and tissue paper or plain old white paper. I guess we're not supposed to link things off site, but just google "cheap easy lightbox"