{"id":3581,"date":"2013-12-25T09:43:46","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T09:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/?p=3581"},"modified":"2013-12-25T09:43:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-25T09:43:46","slug":"three-photo-ideas-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/?p=3581","title":{"rendered":"Three photo ideas for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Christmas-Lights-Car.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3583\" alt=\"Christmas-Lights--Car\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Christmas-Lights-Car-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Christmas-Lights-Car-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Christmas-Lights-Car-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Christmas-Lights-Car-640x426.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Christmas-Lights-Car-163x109.jpg 163w, https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Christmas-Lights-Car-105x70.jpg 105w, https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Christmas-Lights-Car-625x416.jpg 625w, https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Christmas-Lights-Car-180x119.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Christmas-Lights-Car-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Christmas-Lights-Car.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s Christmas day and if you were lucky enough to get some new camera gear today you&#8217;ll probably be itching to try it out, at least that&#8217;s what I always want to do. So here are three of my festive themed video tutorials to give you some photo inspirtation.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a mix of inside and outside tips and tricks for bothe beginner and the more advanced photographer, so grab your camera and shart shooting!<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Balance Flash and Christmas Lights<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nIn this video I take on a challenge of balancing low powered Christmas fairy lights with flash. Dragging the shutter, as the technique is also known, is one of those camera skills that every photographer with a speedlite should master and this is a great way to hone your skills. Scale up the technique just a little and the exact same skill will worth with portraits too.<br \/>\n[youtube]<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TuCeNQrCmVE&amp;feature=youtu.be\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TuCeNQrCmVE&amp;feature=youtu.be<\/a>[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Shoot\u00a0Christmas lights\u00a0from your car<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nGot a new tripod for Christmas? Then this is the perfect photo challenge for you! Grab your widest angle lens or if you have one, a fish eye lens is just perfect. Part II is come soon.<br \/>\n[youtube]<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bie4zQVoN-0\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bie4zQVoN-0<\/a>[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Shoot great bokeh<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong>Bokeh is an optical effect that can create stunningly beautiful photos, it&#8217;s also really easy to do once you know the basics and that&#8217;s exactly what I show in this video.<br \/>\n[youtube]<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iKqd7R-v2qo\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iKqd7R-v2qo<\/a>[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Christmas day and if you were lucky enough to get some new camera gear today you&#8217;ll probably be itching to try it out, at least that&#8217;s what I always want to do. So here are three of my festive themed video tutorials to give you some photo inspirtation. There&#8217;s a mix of inside and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/?p=3581\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Three photo ideas for Christmas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,36,34,24,3],"class_list":["post-3581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","tag-featured","tag-photography","tag-photoshop","tag-spotlight","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3584,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581\/revisions\/3584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}