The beach is a great place to let your creativity run wild; with all the dramatic skies with fluffy clouds, vast ecotone of colour peppered with some nature’s elements where you can use your props, create stories, take unusual pictures with different angles just makes it much more magical. Being in a vacation is surreal but putting those feels into a picture or even expressing a fraction of your happy-emotion through a picture is a task easy said than done. In the millennial’s world photography has never been more accessible to people, and talking about social media like Instagram is the best way to explain so.
So while you are chilling at the sea here are some fun and extraordinary beach picture ideas you want to swap with those mundane #atthebeach ones.
1. Use some props
If you’re headed to the beach with your camera, remember that the sea and the sand are a great background that adds a bit of colour without adding too many distracting elements. So go ahead and pick up a starfish or a colourful item from around the beach (bicycle, Frisbees, parasols) and place it in front of the sand-sea backdrop.
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2. Sand dunes and sand art
For being creative you don’t need to have props all the time, just get down in the sand and make some castles or draw simple shapes or words. If you and your friends are not the castle-creative people then you can always create fun pictures like one immersing himself in the sand with just head popped out and the other in a sand-mermaid costume (remember mermaid Joey in Montauk).
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3. Early riser reaps benefits
Being an early bird helps in a majestic way and even evenings creates beautiful hues that are simply magical because the flattering light gives you soothing photographs of the people on the beach playing or surfing. You can take those famous silhouette pictures which require a backlight, just place the camera facing towards the sun with the model blocking the sun.
4. LED lights
Talking about the golden hour- early mornings and late evenings, it is the perfect time when there’s still natural light but it is not too strong to overshadow the LEDs. As there are not too many artificial light sources on the beach it gives you the best of the pictures. With a jar or any other transparent object, you can create fantasy pictures like you are collecting or releasing stars/fairies.
5. Have a perspective
Ditch all the fancy poses which everybody does, instead have a unique viewpoint of the usual view or objects and it is always a game. Take the photos from different and unusual perspectives which look interesting to the viewer, like lying down on the stomach and capturing the sky or put the sunglasses on the sand and make your model stand in the sun and capture their reflections on the glasses.
