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Fall photography hacks
Fall photography hacks Fall, or autumn as we call it here in Ireland, is arguably the most photogenic season. Missing out on capturing its beauty would be a shame. Here’s how you can make the most of this vibrant time of year with some simple photography hacks. Play with Colour in Your Composition The fall colour palette is so recognisable and it is with no doubt one of the main things that sets your Autumnal photos apart from the rest of the year. With nature slowly turning to beautiful gold, orange, red and brown, it is no wonder the rich autumn colours are so iconic and play to the senses to give a warm feeling to a photo. To emphasize these, you can easily link Photoshop to Dropbox, allowing you to boost the already present colours in post-editing, enhancing the natural vibrancy of the scene. Capture the Magic During Golden Hour To truly make the most of fall’s spectacular display, shoot your landscapes during the golden hour (the hour after sunrise and the hour before sunset). This warm, soft light enhances the already vivid fall colors, casting a romantic glow over your photos. It’s the perfect time to capture the essence of a crisp autumn walk through a forest or along a quiet country road. Want to share a photo of a glorious autumn sunset on your social media? Easily add watermarks to your photos - Nature may be beautiful but, you deserve some credit too!😉 Explore Fall in the City Fall isn’t just for those in rural areas, cities offer their own unique autumnal charm. Capture the season’s essence with shots of fall fashion, urban wildlife, or maybe you could get really artsy with puddle reflections. The contrast of vibrant leaves against urban landscape can create real visual impact. It can be exciting in the city - we easily get inspired and may take waaay too many photos ( speaking for myself, especially with my weakness for fall fashion). We want to share what we see with family and friends, and Dropbox makes it so easy to share large, high-resolution photographs with sharable links. Stay Safe When you’re out chasing that perfect autumnal shot, safety should always be a priority. Be cautious of slippery surfaces, especially near bodies of water or on hiking trails with fallen leaves and damp ground, wear sturdy shoes with good grip, carry a fully charged phone, and respect wildlife by giving animals their space. Tips from a Photographer One of our talented Community managers, who also happens to be an incredible photographer, shared some valuable fall photography tips with us: “I love capturing leaves falling and love using reflections in my photos, especially during autumn. There is such a panoply of colours that you can capture. I often recommend using trees, windows, etc. to help frame your photos. It helps capture the moment and really draw yourself into the experience” Here are a few examples of Emmet’s amazing photography. As you can see he really can capture that natural mystical radiance found in Ireland during the Autumn months. So what are your top photography tips for fall? Share your thoughts and join the conversation below! Let’s capture the beauty of this incredible season together.Camera uploads from my phone and some photos of my cats
Now, I’m no professional photographer, but I do really enjoy taking photos and thanks to my smartphone 🤳. I can do this pretty easily, many, many times a day! If there’s one thing that you're almost guaranteed to see me taking photos of, it’s probably my cats. Like, seriously, it’s not even funny how many photos I have of them but I just can’t help myself. While my phone is a pretty awesome piece of technology, it doesn’t have an unlimited memory and with my propensity to snap away throughout the day, the memory that it has can fill up pretty quickly. Thankfully, camera uploads allows me to take as many photos as I like, without having to worry about filling my phone up. Turn on camera uploads If you haven’t already got your camera uploads turned on, I highly recommend you do it now. It’s really simple to do and only takes a couple of minutes, but it will save you a lot of time and space in the long run. If like me you're using an Android device, all you need to do is open the mobile app, tap on the menu button and select Settings, then under Features tap on Camera uploads, then tap on Backup photos and when prompted tap Allow If you’re on an iOS device, it’s a little bit different but equally as simple. Just go to the person icon and tap on Camera uploads. Then, tap OK and select what you would like to upload and if you would like to use cell data, then tap Turn on camera uploads. Organize your photos I often foundmyself looking for photos on my phone for ages, only to find I’d scrolled past the tiny image 2 or 3 times before I spotted it. Since I enabled camera uploads, I no longerhave this problem because all of the photos I take are automatically added to a folder called Camera uploads in my Dropbox account. From here, I can move them into different folders, add tags, and do a few other things to help organize my photos, like changing the naming convention and adding various automations. Then I can simply search for the photo I want in the search bar, although I will admit, in my case, searching simply for “cat” doesn’t really make it any easier to find what I’m looking for 👀. Tell us what you think I’d love to hear about how you use camera uploads so please leave a comment below. I’d also equally love to see some photos of your pets, bonus points for cats!How do you organize your photos?
Hey photographers, it’s hard to believe we’re already wellinto the summer. With brighter and longerdays,I’ll probably be getting out and taking photos a little more regularly, which got me wondering about the best way to organize my photos. I’m not gonna lie, my current system is far from ideal. I have Camera uploads turned on and my photos make their way to Dropbox and then they just stay where they are, which isn’t really helpful if I want to find a photo. This is something that I want to improve. I’ve already been inspired by how one of my team mates, Emmet, organizes his photos, but I wanted to hear how some of you experts are doing it, too. Are you organizing by shoot, by client, by subject, or by something completely different? Are you using automations, changing naming conventions or doing anything else to help make the way you organize your photos easier, or do you go through everything at the end of the day and find a home for it in your Dropbox account? Whatever you’re doing to keep your photos organized, I’d love to hear about it and you could potentially help inspire me and some of our other group members to get our photos a little more organized.
Have you seen our Dropbox Replay group?
Hey photographers, just popping by today to let you all know about the new Dropbox Replay group we launched a couple of weeks ago. What is Dropbox Replay? Repay is a tool that I am sure lots of you are already aware of and some of you may even already be using, particularly if you also dabble in the world of videography. It’s a video, image, and audio review tool that allows you to mark up, comment on, and finalize projects. With Replay, you’ll be able to share your work with clients, team-members, colleagues, or collaborators and get feedback in real time without ever having to exit your browser. Saving you time and helping to keep your projects moving in the right direction and completely streamlining the entire approval process. The Replay group will be a space where you can discuss your work, share your knowledge and experiences with Replay, and it'll also offer you the unique opportunity to connect directly with the Replay team and direct your feedback and ideas to the people in charge of the product. Joining the Replay group Joining the group is super easy; all you need to do is follow this link and hit the “Join Group Hub” button and you’re in! Hopefully, we’ll see some of you over there soon!Automated watermarks and file renaming
Hey everyone, I hope you're all doing well and feeling creative. I just wanted to let you all know about some awesome new updates to the folder automation features that I thought would be really cool for photographers. You'll now be able toconfigure multiple automations on selected folders and subfolders to automatically rename files, add watermarks, and more. You can find out more about these automations and how to get started with them by reading this post. Do you think these automations will improve your workflow and save you time? Let us know what you think by leaving a comment below.Share pictures with loved ones automatically?
My wife keeps the pictures of our two year old daughter synced with dropbox. We want to share pictures of her with our large extended family, but we also don't want to post the pictures to social media. I created an app that takes dropbox folder and creates a secured online photo gallery for your friends and family. https://www.producthunt.com/posts/myphotos-by-gembani
Workflow with Lightroom and Dropbox
Happy New Year to everyone. After a long debate about storage options, I decided to start using Dropbox as the online option where I can access photos anywhere in the world. However, I am not sure what is the best workflow, opportunities and limitations if editing is done in Lightroom? I am travelling most of the year and it is impossible to carry discs, the NAS server at home is too slow to work with from abroad. Can I use Dropbox as the main storage for RAW and edited files? If yes, what have you found to be the best workflow and process overall for it? Thank you.Organize and share Christmas photos with Dropbox
Christmas is definitely a time of year that I find myself taking more pictures than normal. Meeting up with family and friends and wanting to capture special moments means that I have my camera on more than I don’t. If you’re anything like me, you’ll want to be able to share all of these photos with those closest to you. Social media can be a good way to share photos, but there are definitely times when we might want to keep these photos within a private group of people, especially when family are involved, Dropbox makes it easy to share with exactly who you want. To start with, I’ll always make sure that my camera uploads are turned on. You’ve probably heard me talking about this a few times here in the Photographers group before, but I’ll stand by my words again because I love this feature, it saves me time, space on my phone and makes sure I never lose any photos, so it’s a no brainer for me. If you don’t know how to turn on Camera uploads you can find all the information you need right here. Now that all my photos will be automatically added to my Dropbox account, I’ll figure out a way to organize all of the photos I take at Christmas into folders. Generally speaking, I’ll be meeting up with a lot of different groups of people on different days, so I’ll only want to share photos with the people that are in them, so I’ll start by making a Christmas folder, then inside that I’ll make folders for Christas Eve, Christmas Day, Stephen’s Day, New Years Eve and any other days I might be out and about. Then, dependent on what I’m doing, I might make different folders within these daily folders, for example I might do Christmas morning swim and Christmas Dinner, or Stephen’s Day lunch and Stephen’s Day drinks. Once I’ve got my folders created and all my photos put in the right place, it makes it really easy to share with all of the other people who I was with. To do this, all I need to do is create a view-only shared link to the folder I want to share, and share it with everyone who I was with when I took those photos, or anyone else I want to see them. This link will allow anyone with access to it to view and download the photos inside that folder. If you’re not sure how to create shared links, you can find out everything you need to know here. Now, if your friends and family are anything like mine, you’ll know there are 2 types of people, those who take photos and those don’t. When I want to add photos that friends or family took to my collection, I use file request. This allows them to simply add their photos, which then go directly to my Dropbox account, allowing me to easily add them to the folder they belong in. You can find out more about using file request here. When it comes to using Dropbox for organizing photographs, there are literally hundreds of things you can do, and everyone uses it a little different to everyone else. Check out how our very ownSheenaused Dropbox to help create a Christmas Family Calendar for another awesome example. We’d really love to hear how you plan on using Dropbox to organize your photos this Christmas, let us know in a comment below.Christmas wish list - what photography equipment are you hoping for this year?
It’s almost Christmas and we’re assuming most of you have been pretty good this year and potentially inline for some wonderful Christmas treats, if you celebrate. So, it got us wondering, what’s the one piece of photography equipment that’s currently on your Christmas wish list. Whether it’s a magical gift from Santa Clause, a family member or partner, or even a lovely gift to yourself, we want to know what new toys you’ll hopefully be playing with come the 25th December. I’ll start the ball rolling, I take all of my photos on my phone and I was hoping to up my game a little in 2024 and there are a couple of things I’d really like to see appear in my Christmas sock to help improve the quality of the photos I take. The first thing, is an attachable lens. Now, I’ve seen these a lot on social media and I’m not exactly sure how well they work but I’m a bit of a sucker for a good gadget and they’re not too expensive, so I’ve added it to my Christmas list inn the hope that it works well. The reason behind the lens is there has been a lot of small birds appearing in my garden lately andI’d like to start taking some photos of them, the zoom on my phone is pretty good but by the time I’ve got the birds on the screen, they look a bit pixelated so I’m hoping the lens will help with this. That brings me right into the second item on my list, a tripod. My hands are far too shaky to take a good picture when using the zoom so I’m hoping the tripod will help with this. If I’m lucky enough to get them both, I’ll share some photos in the new year! So, now over to you, what photography equipment is on your wish list this year, or are you getting some kit for someone else? Let us know with a response below!
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