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1. Introduction: Lifestyle photography
is when you are documenting your daily life, day-by-day, slow
and happy moments, active and travel days. When you capture
your moments and then have lovely memories
about your life. And you don't need a photo
studio or models to prepare. You need only your
camera with you. Hello, My name is Elena, I'm photographer and YouTube
are based in London. And I talk about photo skills
and slow live in the UK. And on Instagram, I'm
showing all beauty around in my daily
life and travels. And in this class we will
practice lifestyle photography. We'll document our life on
a static form step-by-step. I will show you how to
prepare your shooting, how to choose right
camera settings, how to take interests in
photos with storytelling. And also we'll learn how to choose the most
interesting photos, where to store
them, how to share, to tell the story to your
audience and France. And then have to
prepare everything for your next photo moment to practice photography
every day easily. So let's start.
2. Class project: For this class, we will do
a small practice project. Will post from four
to ten photos of your life event on Instagram
stories or on Twitter. And I will give you feedback
on all your projects. You will pause here. So don't hesitate to share your photo story and
ask any questions. Additionally, it will be
a great chance to find new friends and followers
to your socials. And maybe you went to find new friends for photo
walks in your city. You could capture
your daily routine, home cleaning, market shopping,
visiting winter shop, or just reading moments, whatever inspires you
to the command and to have memories about
this moment or day.
3. Inspiration instead of procrastination: People inspiring
mean by life events. There are wars,
photos and videos. I admire designers, place
markets, restaurants, art museums, wildlife parks
and historical towns. And always try to go for short trip to capture
all the beauty. Instead of wasting time
scrolling Instagram, I always search for
new places, towns, museums, parks, by hashtags or just in
my recommendation Feed. And if your field
doesn't look prettier, just select not interesting on every photos that
you didn't want to see in your field and your recommendations
will transform. In a few days. On Instagram, I have a
folder with all locations, also called save
photos that inspire me to cool or to make something. And then I could capture them. Also watch YouTube a lot about people's
life and blogs and travel videos from
exciting locations, towns or mountains. I also have a massive list in my Google Maps where I
add locations to see, to eat, and to stay. So next time when we
are ready to go for one day tree by always have plenty of spots to choose from. For my daily photography, I could be inspired by moment. For example, I see the rainbow
just came to my window. And I'm taking a photo
right here or bought a pretty vintage stuff and want to capture it and to
show it on my stories. Or we're going to a park
and I take photos of the season leaves and flowers of people
and animals around. So my inspiration comes from people's lives or
just from the moment. And APA practice is to notice
all this beauty around us.
4. Camera settings: I really recommend you try to take photos without editing, because if we are talking
about lifestyle photography, we want to capture the moment and shared with our friends and followers right here without
wasting hours on editing. So I select JPEG only, either need row format. Also, I'm choosing
a mode or a mode. So I select the maximum
focal point minus 1.8. And I also selected a small
point for a quick focus. And I'm always
shooting with a Cloud, white balance outdoor, it brings my photos slightly yellow tone. So C is the difference
between after white balance and cloud balance. Also, you could check
your profile modes. You could add more contrast
and saturation to have a spark image or less contrast if you prefer
more minimalistic look, if you have a Fujifilm camera, experimental vizio,
or building filters, they will give you
a film effect and you will have a vintage
mood right from the camera. And for settings we have
JPEG format a or AV mode, aperture mode on your camera, plus Cloud white
balance is the base.
5. Mood and purposes: Before shooting, I always
think about what mood and what type of image I expect
more colorful because I go, for example, to a
flower market or more desaturated if it's a foggy
forest in the morning. Also, I think where I
will posted videos I do in vertical orientation
and photos for stories. Also vertical,
maybe want to film a short video to create
reels for Instagram, then do a vertical video, or you want to have a tags, blog and unit for us for it, then nice to take
photos horizontally. This mold preparation in
your head will help you be more confident
during the photo shoot.
6. The shooting: About photo shooting outdoors, or why do we agree when outside, for example, in this case, we came to market? I'm trying to take pictures
of every scene I see around. So I'm not trying to find any specific composition or any specific angle
and just walk around. I'm just talking to people, for example, with my
friends, with my husband. And when I see beautiful image, I'm trying to capture it
right here and right now. Usually I'm taking
pictures of something interesting around
me and not people. I'm not a big fan of
taking for a pupil. But ever since that
interesting for me and that it could be my memories
for my future. About what a shooting at home. Sometimes I want to capture some moments and to fair it to my friends or my family
and my followers. Some updates about my life, about some home updates, what I'm doing,
what did they buy? And usually I do it at home. And for example, in this case, I just bought new
plans and started to grow my own vegetables
and herbals at home. And I wanted to capture it
to show it on my stories. Once the sun came
to the apartment, I started to find
different angles combined for us if this macro photography and
more wide angles as well, to see how the light coming into my window from which the angle is the
better to take photo. Awesome, trying to catch
some specific details. For example, in this case, I'm trying to show what
exactly I'm growing. So it's more interesting to
show the story on stories. To show that I did this one. I bought this one also. I made this one. And it's more interesting than one specific or static photo. It's interesting to
create and capture different pictures,
different photos. And here I just tried to
capture macro photography. Usually I don't do any
specific movement for my, for my photography and
just capture what I see and leaves that they
grab from my new tree. And also I'm spending time
slowly to be honest around, to find angles, to
try different angles. And usually I'm avoiding
to take a lot of photos. I do only one photo
of the scene. Not 20 is the same
photos by just want to and then go for 0. And additionally to my plants, I wanted to show my new
books that I bought. I just last week I came to
the meeting with my friend, decided to came to
Bookstore to find and check new books and bought two books and I wanted
to share it as well. Additionally, updates
about my life and about tails that
I'm interested in. For photos, I decided to
put it on the table two together to show with flowers, with leaves, and to capture
just few different angles. So when you will tell
your story in stories, it will be more interesting to show which was different angles, not just one picture, but different pictures with
different composition.
7. Selecting the best photos: Usually right after
shooting eyes, starting to choose photos. And if I have like
two the same photos, I'm trying to choose the
best one and left only one. So when I will transfer
it to my phone, it will be easier for
me to choose between. Usually my photos
are all in focus, so I'm trying to choose
only by composition. Then I'm transferring
all photos where my app, if you have a new camera, actually you have Wi-Fi
in it and you could transfer it directly
to your phone. And even if you don't
want to use an app, you could use a cart to
put it in your phone. Then on my phone I'm
trying to choose which photos I want
to post in a post, if I want to create a post
on Instagram, for example. But usually all
photos that I did, I'm posting on stories. So sometimes I'm
choosing and deleting extra photos if I feel like I didn't need them or
it's like a duplicate. Also, I'm trying to store all
my photos on a hard disk. I have a Samsung and usually transferring
all photos and videos from my cart to my computer
by folders to keep them safe.
8. Sharing your photos: And now we're starting
to post every scene. So I have all my photos here. I am going to Instagram, have it all here. And usually I'm starting from the beginning like
where I started. For example, like here, I could say like today, I bought or just my new home plants and
put it like that. So people will draw
understands that I'm telling about plants. Then I go and pause two more. Just I, I could post
even without any titles. Could say like my
favorite one. Leg. The aim, again, also could tell about the book. I'm writing more texts, but for showing it's
like just told to me, it just put it like so. So I'm sharing it randomly. And I'm trying to combine
like white photos, for example, this one. And then to pull up
to impose democracy. So to tell a story
from different angles, like we talked about it. It's like you're telling
like to your friend. Just write in interest in style and he ever
have it like this. It's this story is
that about my plans. And we're starting to
post it showing details, showing new books, showing
new greens macro photography. And actually yeah, it will be 0 to followers to seize the story, to fill that story. So they have from
different angles, from different parts
of your apartment. It easier for our audience and France to understand what
we want to talk about. We just started a new greens
and bought new plates. And also how this is green, It's looks like already. And also about our new book. That little stories like everyday when you show
it, it every day, shows a story behind our
work, behind our live. So for our followers, for example, we're creator. For our followers,
it's easier to understand our life, our work, and our backstage without any like talking to
camera or something we just showing it and also keeps
its photos for ourselves.
9. Preparing your next walk: About preparing for
your next photo walk, I really recommend you to
have a node, for example, in notes in your phone and to write every scene that
you want to capture, where you plan to go, where you plan to travel, or p in all nice places
on your Google Maps. So it will help you
not to really stress about your next photo trip
or your next photo walk, you will have a
lease, then you could choose from the list. And I really recommend to
charge your batteries before. So when you're starting to go, everything is fine and prepared. And I really, really, really recommend to go for a photo wall at
least twice a week. It's better to go
like every day, but we have a lot of
stuff to do every day. So at least twice a
week, for example, in once in a week
day, for example, in the evening and
once on Saturday to go to have a coffee onto the
market and to take photos. And this practice will help you to improve your
photography skills, will improve your eye, will improve your feeling about photography and confidence
about your camera, about your camera settings. So try to take more
photos and for sure shares them not to store them only on your hard disk, but fair to people to
have the feedback, to have Coleman's to feel yourself in your new
proper photography role. Even if you're not photographer, It's really hard sometimes to start to share because
we're afraid we're shy, but when you will start
it, it will be easier. So I really recommend you to prepare every scene
and to practice more. I practice every day. And hopefully it was
helpful for you. And if you have any questions, any questions you have, even beyond this class, you could write me on e-mail
or indirect in Instagram. I will answer all your questions and share your
photos in a class. Fills this class like it's safe place where
you could share. Nobody will charge you. Like everyone will love you. Share at least four
to ten photos. You could tag me on Instagram or you could share
it here if you steal a little shy about
sharing it to the public, yeah, feel free to
ask any questions, to start any discussions, to tell about yourself. And I would be really happy
to help you go this journey. And thank you so much. Thank you so much
for this class. And see you in the next class.
