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Photograph the Hidden Colours in Your Backyard
Your backyard is more colourful than you think. Spend a day chasing the light and capture reds, blues and golds you usually walk right past.
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You do not need to travel for striking nature photography. The garden outside your door holds vivid roses, iridescent insect wings, deep shadow purples and gold light filtering through leaves, if you learn to look. Colour changes hour by hour, so the same spot rewards you again and again.
Follow the light across a full day, from dewy morning to golden hour to night. Each session teaches you something about angle, exposure and how sunlight paints the ordinary. Bring a camera or just your phone and start seeing your own backyard differently.
by PlayTryBe team
Start in the soft morning light, capturing dew on flowers and gentle pastels. Play with angles and exposure.
Suggestion: A small tripod keeps early, low light shots sharp.Run a hidden rainbow exercise. Tune your settings to pull out iridescence on damp leaves or the shades hiding in a plain pebble.
Go macro at midday. Zoom into bug carapaces and the fine veins in petals with a close up lens or a phone attachment.
Chase golden hour as the sun drops. Use shadows and silhouettes, and adjust white balance to catch the warm tones honestly.
Finish after dark. Use artificial light to spotlight or diffuse over a subject and capture the garden at night.
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