New To Still Life Photography? Here Are 3 Free Guides to Get You Started
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Still life photography looks simple and straightforward, and yet it can be quite challenging to accomplish a good result. It offers an excellent way to learn about composition, managing light, creating a mood, telling a story, and evoking emotion.
These are all important elements to making an engaging image. And the great thing about this style is that you can start right away with elements in your home. Here are three free guides on still life photography to get you started!
Getting the composition right is an important step in all genres of photography, including still life photography. Did you know that successful compositions use at least 3 tools of composition and that there are 34 such tools of composition that you can choose from? If you’d like to learn these techniques, take a look at the Action Cards set. But for now, let’s check out these free guides!
Download now → Still life originally began as a painting art form. It is the art of assembling elements – usually inanimate or man-made – into an aesthetically pleasing arrangement, which is then painted or photographed. Stacey Hill goes over the 4 key elements in still life photography in this excellent free guide. 
Download now → Photographing still life does not require an immense space and very elaborate tools. You can actually begin with what you have at home. Of course, lighting is a key element in this style of photography and in this quick guide you everything about utilizing light in still life photography and how it affects the mood conveyed in the image.
Download now → So now that you have your lighting and your beautiful still life shots, what next? Well, here are a few suggested steps on how to post-process your still life photographs to bring out anything you may want to accentuate or fix any hiccup you may have encountered during shooting and achieve the final result.
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About Sol Walser
Sol lives in Argentina with her young daughter and has been involved in photography for almost a decade, with a particular interest in street, travel and product photography. She recommends the Action Cards Composition Set to anyone who wants to learn photographic composition through unique, practical assignments that you can print and take with you anywhere.
