Design3 quick tips• Start collecting plastics and packaging to photograph. One trip to the supermarket can throw up lots of subjects.
• Get close to the subject and try shooting abstracts by focusing on the wonderful swirls of color. • An iPad screen is polarized already, and so your tablet can make a perfect mini lightbox for this technique. |
iPad Technique
This is a technique that looks impressive but which is very easy to do with a tablet.
Unlike other light sources, such as a lightbox, a computer screen is already polarized, so all you need is a polarizing filter fitted to your camera and the two will interact to cross-polarize the final image. Place a clear plastic object on your tablet’s screen and position your camera directly overhead using a tripod, then rotate the filter and see what futuristic effects you can create. We used a set of rulers, but something as simple as clear plastic cutlery can look equally striking. . |