Everyday life photography focuses on routines like mealtimes or getting ready, capturing hobbies. Telling a story through candid moments. Other creative projects involve focusing on subjects such as a specific area in your neighbourhood, or a single subject like a pet.
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Although a bit of a sales pitch for their course, here is a great description of every day photography by Erika and Lanny Mann, a famous photography couple from Canmore.
Here are some ideas:
Candid moments: Capture unposed, natural moments, such as pets resting or a child brushing their teeth.
Daily routines: Photograph the small rituals that make up your day, like making coffee, preparing meals, or getting ready.
Hobbies and downtime: Document what you or your loved ones enjoy doing to relax, such as gardening, playing games, or reading.
Focus on details: Get close-ups of things that are meaningful, like a person’s hands, a favorite piece of clothing, or a unique item.
Pets: Photograph pets in their favorite spots, like “perched pets,” or capture them interacting with the family.
Tell a story: Create a visual narrative by capturing a series of photos that tell a story, from morning to night.
Single-day projects: Choose a specific theme to photograph for a full day, like only objects on the ground, or only one color.
Environmental portraits: Photograph yourself or others in their natural environment, like at home or a favorite outdoor spot.
Explore your neighborhood: Go out like a tourist in your own city, focusing on one square block or visiting new areas to find new opportunities.
Play with perspective: Try a new angle, like looking from the outside in through a window or shooting from a low-to-the-ground perspective.
Use natural light: Use a window to create a natural light setup for indoor portraits.
Focus on food: Photograph meals being prepared or eaten, using interesting props and capturing textures and colors.
Just a glance at the cuteness of our puppy while walking into the room made me want to pick up the camera and take a snapshot. Then thought about composition, framing, contrast etc. before taking the picture. I liked the framing of the doghouse and the dark background framing of Crispin’s furry head. Post processed with Adobe Camera Raw.
Sweet portrait. Crispin has found the fountain of youth! Forever a puppy.
Crispin running towards me. Taken with a 35 mm lens f/1.8, 1/2000 sec, ISO 1600.
Developed in ON1 – using the B&W filter’s color channels. Film simulation Ilford Pan F50. I like the compostion with the curved path’s center line connecting Crispin and Karen in the distance. The image has a layered feel to it with a near and far subject. Low perspective about 30 cm from the pavement, camera in burst mode while holding the back button focus down.
An ordinary day, but a very rainy day… here in the desert, often when it rains it pours.
9:00am – the skies open.. iPhone shot, ISO64, 15.66mm, f/2.8, 1/100sec.
9:06am –
and suddenly it stops and the sun comes out.
iPhone ISO50, 25.66mm, f/2.8, 1/400sec.
first heavy snow 96mm ISO 400 f6.3 1/500
Mid-afternoon
A shot of the birdbath through our front window. It’s been raining on and off all day, this is a lighter, steady shower. Took this shot with a faster shutter speed to capture the raindrops in the birdbath. ISO220, 120mm, f/5.6, 1/2000sec.
I love the patterns!
Early evening.
Just left the house after the rains stopped and the storm has moved off to the west, and discovered almost continuous sheet lightning behind a cloud bank to the west. A neighbour a couple of doors down lights his palm tree and the front of his home, which conveniently added some nice ambient color to a spectacular sky. iPhone shot, ISO1250, 15.66mm, f/2.8, 0.5sec.
My daughter, her dog and Jan. Georgie is either showing affection towards Jan or Jan had some remnants of pepperoni on her lips that needed a closer look. I’m not sure.
1/100 sec @ f3.2, ISO 3200
35mm f1.4 lens on Canon R5
Edited in Lightroom
Post game for my grandson. Hockey is his thing in the winter.
1/160sec @ f/3.2, ISO 2500
35mm f 1.4 lens on Canon R5
Edited in LR
How many photos can you take of a vacuum to make interesting… too many! I tried a new setting on my Canon 90D called HDR art vivid. Take 3 photos and stacks them. This was F5.6, 1/8 sec, ISO 6400 using natural light from the window. Interesting tones it gave the brown hose.
I bought this brooch in Hawaii at a farmers’ market made from pieces of old jewelry. I had to reglue the mermaid back on today, brought great memories of the trip. Lens 18-135, F5.6 1/60 ISO 2400.
A walk at Signal Hill the day after a heavy snow fall. Clear skies with a view of the Rockies to the west. Cropped as a panorama.
Aperture Priority, F/3.2, 1/2500 sec, ISO 100, FL 56 mm
Stepping out to walk the dog, the clouds were there.
natural light as my phone saw it.
Frost on the raspberry leaves in my yard.
Aperture Priority, f/4.0, 1/640 sec, ISO 100, FL 600 mm
Cropped to only show one leaf and the ice crystals.
Cleaned up the background to remove distracting partial leaves.
Here’s the original photo
Feather grass in the front bed, sun coming in.
When it is time to decorate for Christmas, the snowman comes out and so does Bootsy. I took this with my phone.
A view of the Bow valley from the slopes above Lake Louise
Taken with cell phone
Fun on the snow
Taken with cell phone
A day in the Life
…and that’s life…
I went to bed and had flowers in the pots
I woke up and looked out to this.
After that rude late November snowfall my hanging petunia refused to believe winter was coming, but the Christmas lights shawn on….
Cell phone f1.5 @ 1 second & iso 320
Levels and curves tweaked in Photoshop,
Very proud of my second attempt at taxidermy so I decided to jazz “them” with Christmas bling.
ISO 6400, 37 mm, f/5.6, 1/50 s