Our creative and creative capacity cannot stop. We propose a photographic exercise close, very close.
You will be photographing something very close to you...hands.
Our hands or the hands of the people next to you.
We give you some premises to approach the action:
- Photographs of hands in a short, medium shot. Fill the shot well.
- Make sure that the backgrounds are plain, neutral, that they do not stand out. Give importance to the central element, which is the hands. This does not mean that we have anything against variegated backgrounds, or full of information. Look at the work of Joel Peter Witkin.
But we believe that backgrounds without information, flat backgrounds, will enhance the content; in our case some hands.
3. Take care of the light. Let it be a light that produces a molding of those hands. Light that accentuates veins, tendons, the traces of the fingertips, the hair...
Investigate lateral, zenithal, oblique lights... Think about whether you want this light to be hard (direct and with pronounced shadows) or soft, thanks to the use of diffusers.
- Those of you who use the flash, take advantage of it to use it away from the camera.
Try the benefits of TTL systems, but don't overlook all the control that manual systems give us...and if you have two flashes...two lights!
Use colored jellies in front of the flashes, and let the imagination run wild.
Photograph taken by the master Alberto García-Alix of the master Camarón.
So nothing... enjoy clicking!