#SnapSydney 2018: Put your favourite faces in the frame
IT’S time to start showing your love for your favourite faces. It could be a family member, a partner, a good mate, a pet or any local charming larrikin that you find endearing. Find out where to post it to be part of #SnapSydney.
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IT’S time to start showing your love for your favourite faces.
It could be a family member, a partner, a good mate, a pet or any local charming larrikin that you find endearing.
NewsLocal’s #SnapSydney campaign returns for its fifth year on Thursday, November 15, when Sydneysiders will set out to capture the heart and soul of their city and the people they love and share their photos on social media across 24 hours.
All you have to do to join in on our annual snapshot of Sydney is take a photo that embodies the faces you love and where your live and post it on Instagram or Twitter using the hashtag #SnapSydney.
But you don’t have to wait until November 15 to get snapping.
We want you to show us what you love most about your favourite faces now by putting them in the frame.
To help you get started, News Corp Digital Picture Editor Nicholas Eagar gives you his top six tips to nail the perfect portrait.
KISS: KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID!
Avoid having many subjects in a single frame - the whole family with the doggos may be a little difficult to capture using Portrait Mode.
STAND BY THE ‘RULE OF THIRDS’
This is an age old photography tip and it applies to smart phones too. Use your phone with the nine-square grid turned on and, instead of having your subject at the centre of your frame, place them at a point where two of these grid lines intersect.
LIGHTING, LIGHTING, LIGHTING
Make sure your subject is well lit in natural light, but not completely blasted by midday sun - and certainly not back-lit from behind! Move your subject around a little, with them in frame and see what looks best based on the environment your shooting in.
FOCUS VS. BOKEH
What’s bokeh? For the purposes of keeping things simple (there’s a theme building here), Bokeh is that cool effect where an object is in focus while the background is blurred.
Portrait Mode uses a cool artificial technique to achieve this effect. However, you’ll need to be sure to keep your subject in focus and in position - a neat tip to help with this is to hold your finger down on your subject so you can have an auto-focus lock on your subject.
Another element to consider whilst achieving your award winning portrait is to keep an appropriately relative distance - generally about 2.5 metres - and to have your background not too close to your subject - at least more than 2.5 metres.
HAVE FUN!
One of the most intrinsic and universal parts of portraiture photography is having rapport with your subject; do what you can to make them feel comfortable or better yet, have a laugh, and you might just capture something truly special
HOW TO TAKE PART:
Put Thursday, November 15, in your diary to share photos of your family, favourite local spots or landmarks and loveable local larrikins as part of #SnapSydney.
Instagram: Post your pictures using the hashtag #SnapSydney and tag us @SnapSydney so we can repost them.
Twitter: Tweet your picture with #SnapSydney and mention @SnapSydney.
For full terms and conditions, visit snapsydney.com.au.
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