Thursday, December 1, 2011

Holiday Photo Challenge: via The Paper Mama

My niece Tess came over to help me out with a little photo lighting project, and the result was this fun, cozy, fuzzy-warm holiday photo.

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The Paper Mama

UPDATED:

I probably should have included this yesterday when I originally posted the photo, but my lighting experiment was inspired by an interview I did for work with photographer and author Nick Kelsh.

Here's a video with a tutorial on how to build a lightbox that creates that glowy effect when you turn off the flash (and please amateur photographers, turn off that flash):

Nick Kelsh's A Christmas Card from Nick Kelsh on Vimeo.

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All you need is a box, a string of Christmas lights, a hanger and some aluminum foil. Genius.

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5 comments:

  1. UnknownDecember 1, 2011 at 2:06 PM

    Very cute! I have been trying to do this with my 21 month old and it hasn't been working out too well.

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  2. HeidiDecember 2, 2011 at 6:49 AM

    Thanks, Mallory. I updated this post to include a video that I followed to help with the lighting.

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  3. KathrynDecember 2, 2011 at 8:52 AM

    Uh oh! According to Mr. Nick Kelsh, our Christmas card this year is breaking some major rules...

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  4. HeidiDecember 3, 2011 at 9:11 AM

    Uh oh, Kathryn. Time for a reshoot. ;)

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  5. TezzieDecember 12, 2011 at 1:49 PM

    Beautiful! And, great lightbox idea :)

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