Listen up, folks! If you're still using auto mode on your camera, it's time to step up your photography game. Stop being lazy and switch your camera to manual mode. Say goodbye to awkwardly lit shots and hello to sharp, perfectly exposed pics. Shooting in manual mode not only helps you to get to know your camera and its characteristics better, but it also helps you to become familiar with the settings for ISO, aperture and shutter speed so that you can shoot in a more controlled way. Not to mention, you'll finally be able to impress your friends with your impressive technical skills. Because let's face it, nobody understands aperture and shutter speed quite like us photographers. Manual mode: it's like a superhero cape for photographers.

Printing photos means experiencing them more intensely. A digital image may never be as real as a printed one. I mean, how many digital photos do you have that you have forgotten about? Printing gives you many tools to further shape your image. The type of paper - rough, glossy, matte or even with a special printing process - the size of the image and even the way it is presented, like a frame, can be used to tell the story of the image. When you print your image, you have control over how it looks, which can be very important, especially with colours. All of this can also make the story stronger.

You arrive on set, get everything set up, take the camera out of your bag and after the first 10 shots, when you really start shooting, the battery goes dead. You panic. You are completely thrown, even if you have a spare battery. It's obvious that you should charge the battery, but you can't say it enough. It has happened to me often enough, especially because I have said spare battery with me. It's just stupid when it's empty. So it's best to be consistent and put the batteries in the charger immediately after a shoot, then you won't have any problems with the flow.

Frequency separation, shadow removal, powdering, freckle removal. Do you want a real person or a puppet in front of the camera? Frequency separation in particular should be used with care, or better not at all. Skin has different textures in different areas, protect and preserve those textures. Frequency separation, as well as blending textures with powder workflow, destroys these textures. Matching skin colour in different areas can also destroy the texture. Skin texture is an important part of a vivid image. Often it is enough to remove rough imperfections with dodge and burn or by using a restoration/healing brush tool.

Through inspiration on Twitter and here on Instagram, I came up with the idea of giving regular tips and tricks on photography and everything around it. These are based on my own experiences and those of others, and are intended to serve as a small, direct, loud and fun guide.

So it's worth keeping an eye on this project, because you might learn a thing or two, or at least get a smile out of it.

I’m going to post this tips as graphics on my socials (instagram, twitter) and will add posts on this platform, with larger content and more information about the topics I cover.

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