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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.

 

5 Tips to start shooting lifestyle photography to help you capture 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.

Tips for Shooting Lifestyle Photography in your shooting everyday. Especially with your kids!

 

Tips for Shooting Lifestyle Photography in your shooting everyday. Especially with your kids!

 

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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

Tips for Shooting Lifestyle Photography in your shooting everyday. Especially with your kids!

On the same level of your subject

 

Tips for Shooting Lifestyle Photography in your shooting everyday. Especially with your kids!

 

And from behind

 

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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.

 

 

Tips for Shooting Lifestyle Photography in your shooting everyday. Especially with your kids!

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….

Tips for Shooting Lifestyle Photography in your shooting everyday. Especially with your kids!

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.

Tips for Shooting Lifestyle Photography in your shooting everyday. Especially with your kids!

 

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!

 

 

 

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McKenzie

Tuesday 4th of April 2017

Great post! This is really great advice, and I think there are some awesome pictures here. Thank you for sharing!

Kiana Abram

Tuesday 2nd of February 2016

These are all great tips! I'll have to start using some of them when taking pictures for my blog and Instagram.

Stephanie of The TipToe Fairy

Wednesday 27th of January 2016

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.