Great Spots for Fashion Photography in the City

If you want to get in big as a fashion blogger, the visuals that y'all produce are your biggest opportunity to stand out and make a lasting affect on your audience. That's why in this post I'd like to talk to yous virtually how to notice a slap-up spot for a photoshoot and make your pictures look like a million $$$$$$$.

LOCATION SCOUTING

Whenever you travel effectually town, try to put on your "blogger glasses" and make a mental notation whenever you spot a pretty location. (You can fifty-fifty accept a picture and email it to yourself with the subject "Shoot Location").
Skillful examples could be a edifice with cool compages, a wall with unusual texture or a an atmospheric corner in a park. If you have a DSLR camera, you tin can blur out the background which will allow you to take pictures on a busy street without them looking overcrowded.

One fob is to go inspiration from other bloggers in your metropolis. Some of them mark their shoot locations on Instagram, which makes it quite easy to track down. If non – you can always ask!

Calorie-free AND TIME OF Mean solar day

I can't emphasise enough how of import light is for skillful images. Street style photography looks all-time under natural calorie-free. Ideally, you'd want it to be quite soft and then you don't have to fight with harsh shadows. That's why the best fourth dimension for taking pictures is in the forenoon or in the afternoon when the sun is not directly over you lot (unless you're shooting on a cloudy day).

In the shoot below we did accept quite a lot of sunlight, so nosotros had to hide in the shadow of a tall building. Another possibility is to shoot straight into the sunlight and aim for a sunday flare.

Nonetheless, I would only recommend this final option if you're working with a professional person photographer every bit it's a fleck catchy to get correct.

FRAMING AND Angle

In theory yous can make any location work with the correct framing and bending. Hither are a few tips to make your life easier:

FOCUS ON THE OUTFIT

Cull a groundwork that is not likewise decorated. Ideally you don't want to have other people in the shot, unless you can blur them out. The less you have going on in the background the more than attention you'll draw to your outfit.

THE "LONG LEGS" Bending

In order to elongate your torso in the shot inquire your photographer to take the picture from a low angle (looking upwardly to yous).
If yous make up one's mind to become for this angle, yous also need to put some distance betwixt you lot and the photographer (you can ask to zoom in if the frame gets also broad) otherwise your body might look a fleck distorted.

THE PLAYFUL Bending

If you lot desire to mix things up a bit you can accept some shots from above. This angle works quite well if you're sitting on the ground or on a chair. I love Masha Sedgwick's images from above: on the footing, on the chair, on the stairs.

MOODBOARD AND STYLING

The location needs to piece of work well with your clothes. Think virtually the mood that you want to convey.

LUXURIOUS

If you're going for the luxe vibe, and then antiquarian architecture like museums or theatres (or annihilation that has got beautiful columns) works actually well.

GRITTY

Run down walls, graffiti brickwork, fences can make your outfit look very edgy and gritty.

Modern

Glass buildings and metal (steel) backgrounds will brand your expect seem ultra modern.

URBAN

Street with blurred background, street junction, center of the road will give your outfit an urban feel.

EXOTIC

Mosaic walls, coloured houses, beaches, palm trees piece of work amazingly for an exotic bear on.

In my shoot below I wanted to go for a mix between luxury and edgy because I think that information technology'due south a corking fashion to stand for the designs I was wearing.

Peggy Hartanto is a wonderful Indonesian designer whose styles wait very feminine but also quite edgy and unique. I'm absolutely obsessed with her jumpsuits and wore them on more i occasion.

Combined with the luxurious tweed coat past Elizabeth Martin and the quirky jewellery from Catherine Zoraida the look works perfectly next to classy urban architecture.

What are your hush-hush photography tips? I'd love to hear them! Practice you utilize the same or different photographers for your posts?

Photography: Will Corder