Valentine's Day is a day devoted to love and affection. Photography is a great tool to use in celebrating love and affection. Here are some great ideas for props, backgrounds, and effects to make your Valentine's Day photography wonderful.
1. Soft Focus Technique
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There is a super quick and easy way to create a nice soft focus effect using layers in your digital darkroom software. This effect can add a fairytale (as with the example image), glamorous, or romantic effect to your images depending on the subject.
2. Graffiti-Style Heart Background
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Valentine's Day calls for special backgrounds. One great background for Valentine's Day photography is a graffiti-style heart. It is super simple, quick, and cheap to make this background.
3. Valentine's Day Candy Heart Prop
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Almost every photographer loves to look through catalogs of photography props. That is, look until they notice the prices! Don't let the prices of professional props discourage you from using props in your photography. This do-it-yourself Valentine's Day photography prop costs about $10 in materials and only takes about 1/2 hour to make.
4. Valentine's Day Prop - Large Word "LOVE"
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Valentine's Day is all about love. Using large word props as foreground and background items is a favorite way of photographers to convey an emotion. Plus its another prop for the collection of "cute kid" photo gear.
