Hand in the frame still life photography has been a fascination of mine for a few years now. It is a great way to dip your toes into doing self-portraits without putting your whole body into the frame. It still falls within the still life category for me since I am usually using my hands and props to tell a story. Whether it be a food story where I'm picking up a muffin or a historical story where I'm holding an old letter with some pretty ruffled sleeves on my arms. You can get really creative in the stories you tell adding in a human element.

In this class we'll cover:

• I'm going to introduce you to an idea I had for using books as inspiration for the stories we put together.


• I'll show you how I use tethering to make taking hand in frame photos easier


• We'll talk about the lighting


• I'll show you how I do tabletop photography using a tabletop camera mount from glide gear or using a tripod with a boom arm so you can shoot straight down on your setup


• I'll go over the props I pulled together for the story I'm telling


• I'll style the setup and talk about a few photos I might end up taking


• We'll also look at my final photos from this setup and do some editing in Lightroom.

This course is a great class for moving up a level in your photography by trying some advanced techniques for your photography.

Required Gear: A camera. You can do still life photography with any camera you have. A few props to tell your story, and I am shooting tethered - which you can do, or set your camera up with a tripod and use a remote to fire off your camera.