5 Tips For Using Lifestyle Photography in Your Everyday
Wikipedia defines Lifestyle Photography as:
“A style of portrait/people photography which aims to capture and document real-life events, situations, or milestones in an artistic manner and the art of the everyday.”
Lifestyle photography is the perfect way to document your everyday. But where do you start? What do you need to do?
Today I’ve got 5 easy photography tips for shooting Lifestyle Photography, and capturing your everyday.
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1. Have your Camera Ready
Now whether that is your mobile camera, your point and shoot or your DSLR: have it ready. Because there is nothing worse than having that perfect moment unfold in front of you and you don’t have your camera! I usually have my camera out and readily assessable at home or with me when I go out to the park. And even if I don’t have my Canon 6D with me, my iPhone is ALWAYS in my pocket! Because everyday eyecandy happens at anytime.
2. Change Your Perspective
Part of Lifestyle Photography is telling a story from different points of view. Don’t forget to get shots from all perspectives:
From Above
On the same level of your subject
And from behind
3. Always be aware of the Light.
Be aware of your light and know how to work with it. Going about your everyday, the light will not always be perfect. But learn to work with what’s there. Use it to your advantage.
4. Capture the Details
Don’t forget the close ups and the details of the story: the little hands, the untied shoes or in this case, the acorns in the little hands….
5. Be Creative with your Focus
Finally, bring it all together: Have your camera ready, think about those details, and change your focus. Think about those moments of the day and focus on them. Use a wider aperture to make one thing the focus of the photo.
I hope these tips for Shooting Lifestyle Photography in your shooting everyday helped! Especially with your kids! ! Shooting for a 365 or even a Project 52 is a great way to incorporate Lifestyle photography into your everyday shooting! Go out and practice! I’d love to see what you shoot!
Those are great photos of every day life and I really love the close-up of the acorns in hand. Great photos capturing great memories!
Wow these photos came out great! Thank you for sharing 🙂
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These are great tips! Thank you for sharing. I am always looking to better my photography.
Thank you for the tips. I love that the camera on my phone have become so good – it makes it easy to always be ready to snap a photo
Girl I’m telling you, you should have been the one speaking about photography at the conference. Your tips are very helpful!
Thank you so much for sharing these tips. I can’t wait to give them a try.
Thoughtful ideas. You are so right about learning to work with the light you have. Sometimes I don’t bother because I know “the light isn’t right”. time to get brave and learn to work with the light ya got!
Awesome tips love!
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Thanks for sharing these tips. I’m determined to get better a my photography skills.
All awesome tips. Makes me want to go out and buy a REAL camera! Will have to check out more tips once I do. Love the detail shots.
Very helpful! Photography isn’t my thing so I need all the help I can get. I always need to remind myself to change the perspective. I always try to capture head on when other angles can really make the difference.
Great tips as always, I always learn something and I love that. When I’m looking for something I always come search your blog. I can’ wait to get my lifestyle photography together.
this made me smile!
These are great pics! I love the tip about changing perspective… it’s so true, that can make the shot.
These are great photography tips anyone could use! I so need to invest in a great camera myself. I have many talents, but photography is not one of them!
My photography skills are as good as my german (which is quite bad) so this is a very useful post for me. Thanks for sharing
These are excellent everyday photography tips. I need to work on capturing images from all angles myself.
These are great ideas. I need to get out there and practice more often. I’ve been restricting myself to still shots too much.
What great tips! I am working harder on being mindful of the lighting- that’s SO important!
Great points. I always say whenever someone asks me about photography – LIGHT, LIGHT LIGHT and take your camera with you everywhere and take pictures of everythign from every angle until you know what you like.
I love photography so much but it is a newer interest. I have a lot to learn so appreciate all the tips I can get. .
Now that I have a new camera and new editing equipment I want to take my photography to the next level! I am researching better angles and definitely digging closeup shots!
Wow those are really great photos and you have shared great tips too!!
Your lifestyle photography is my version of ‘photo-journalist’ shots, which is basically taking candid photographs. I love it! It’s one of my favorite hobbies!
These are definitely great tips. I tend to use all of them except I often forget to have my camera with me. Sometimes I think something would make a great photo and realize I don’t have access to my camera, lol.
These are all great tips! I’ll have to start using some of them when taking pictures for my blog and Instagram.
Great post! This is really great advice, and I think there are some awesome pictures here. Thank you for sharing!