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Instagram, a massive social media platform, is used by people to showcase their lavish personal lives, stylish wardrobes, fun days out, artistic sides, or the life of their pets. One thing common in all these uses of a person's social media accounts is showcasing their lifestyle with great pictures.
Pictures can be used to showcase not just the outfit but the whole story behind it. Photographs can capture more than just faces and go beyond showing a person's emotions. Hence, when using Instagram, users need a few photography props that can come in handy anytime they need to make a post.
Five photography props that enhance Instagram photos
1) Water on the mirror to add effect
Adding water to the mirror can give one great effect and cool aesthetics to enhance images. For this hack, all one needs is a mirror at home and a few water droplets. People can use any large mirror in the house and sprinkle some droplets on it.
After putting on droplets, the user must switch off the room's lights and use flash photography to achieve the effects like the one in the photo above. @tmhill98 created a galaxy effect through water droplets on the mirror.
This hack can also be used creatively by adding shapes like hearts to the effect. One can randomly add sprinkles and then clean out the rest of the portion, leaving a heart shape on the mirror. After which, one can place one of their hands underneath the heart and give an effect of holding a lighted silver heart through flash photography just like @l00kinthrulenz.
2) Fairy lights to give a glowing effect
@rikki_cracknell created a neutral background by hanging sheets around herself in a small corner and added a prop through a stuffed piggy toy. Besides this, she also features a makeup look that gives cute and fairy vibes to her overall photograph. This photo already looks great, but adding fairy lights around herself might make it even more beautiful.
For this effect, all one needs is a few fairy light strings that have small bulbs to make sure they do not get hot. Then one can place those fairy lights around themself in a creative way, which can add a lighting effect on their face and enhance the overall picture by making it unique and magical.
3) Cotton clouds as a prop
Cotton can be used in many ways, but one of the creative ways to use the cotton balls will be by sticking them together to create an illusion of clouds. In these photos, @ara_mackenzie uses a cloud prop to enhance her photos. The use of clouds as a prop can add a calming effect to one's pictures, making them look ethereal to the other Instagram users.
One can also use these cotton clouds inside the room by adding a touch of angel aesthetics in the photo. For e.g., @rannilein adds a floral tiara and paper butterflies as a prop to enhance the entire photo and give a fairy-type aesthetic to the picture.
4) Sky in the mirror hack
Every Instagram user is big on the ideas of mirror photos, and those look very cute. But people can also enhance mirror photos through a few simple steps. For this hack, one will need a small but unique mirror to be laid upon the ground. When they stand upon the mirror and pose, it looks like they are standing in the sky surrounded by clouds.
One can add creativity to the photograph if they take pictures in a garden or around flowers. In this picture, @chrissi.lux uses a self-timer outside in a forest to add pretty aesthetics to the Instagram post.
5) Using water puddle to add reflection
One can add an upside-down reflection of the photo just using a water puddle as a prop. The photo added by @majorero.berto uses the same effect. The Instagram user should use an angle in the line of the foot from below and then take an angle reaching up to the sky. Then they can see an upside-down reflection of themself to enhance the photo.
In this post by @no_soul_one, she flips her phone upside down to get a closer look at the reflection with the puddle.
Note: This article is subjective and solely reflects the writer's opinions.
