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<p>Anyone can Self-Timer. In the world of photography it’s about being creative. In order to maximise your creativity and use all of your imagination you need the right tools to help you. Having the ability to remote control your camera from your phone is priceless </p>

<li>You then become the subject AND the photographer. You are able to focus, change settings, set it to a 2-second timer, hide your phone and take as many shots as you need without having to run back and forth within a 10-second window and hope you’re in focus. </li>

<p>Underwater photos are a bit more challenging for the fact that if you want it without goggles on, you can’t really see what you’re doing. But to get it situated is simple. You need a tripod &amp; a weight to keep it in place with the time lapse mode set up. You can also use a monkey grip tripod on a rock or hang it upside down in a pool with a sandbag on one of the tripod legs extended flat. </p>

<p>Again, the creativity and pre-planned post-editing comes in to play a lot. This shot was done in the pool with the GoPro hanging in upside down. </p>

<p>I then used an underwater shot from the sea and brushed over the bubbles to add the realism and turn the shot into something more dramatic then just in the pool. You really can create from any starting point. </p>

<h1>We’ve covered hiding the remote, but let’s talk about settings...</h1>

<p>There are a few ways to take a photo of yourself with the drone - bracketing (AEB) - you can then either merge all and brush out the remote, or select the 4th/5th shot which has it hidden, time lapse (which my new one doesn’t have) then it’s the same as the GoPro and you can hide it and set it to take photos every 2 seconds etc, or hyper lapse which mind does, essentially the same thing except you’ll need to set waypoints of where you’d like the shot to end up and a very slow speed so you have time to get in place and a few different options. Some drones have a self-timer option but time lapse/hyper lapse is evidently the same difference in terms of still images. </p>

<p>You can also shoot video, which I’ve done in both these shots above. Get your drone in place, go place yourself in the scene and then load the footage into premiere and export the single frame as a photo to be able to edit. I recommend shooting in 4K as you’ll have more to work with, it’s still not as easy as someone else shooting for you but its an option that’s worked a lot for me, especially for swimming top-down shots where I can’t set my remote to the side or was too time constrained to set up waypoints. </p>

How to Take Your Own Photos (by yourself!) — @MyTravelation's mag on Magma

Norway

Self shot on Sony a7ii  — @iamsusndybvik's mag on Magma

Camping

Fashion

Nature

Bryce Canyon National Park

Sunset at Bryce. 🧡 — @natsterwhite's mag on Magma

Napa

Texture Edit

<h1><strong>HOW TO APPLY</strong></h1>
<p><strong>A quick video guide on applying the textures you saw in the previous page!</strong></p>
<p><strong>If reading a step by step guide is more your speed, slide to the next page for exactly that! </strong></p>

Texture & how to use it 💕 — @rjmckinnon's mag on Magma

Tulum

<h1>Tulum</h1>
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  <h2>Tulum is a town on the Caribbean coastline of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. It’s known for its beaches and well-preserved ruins of an ancient Mayan port city. The main building is a large stone structure called El Castillo (castle), perched on a rocky cliff above the white sand beach and turquoise sea. Near the ruins is the Parque Nacional Tulum, a coastal area with mangroves and cenotes (natural limestone sinkholes)</h2>
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HOW TO TRAVEL TULUM - 7 Days in Paradise

A Z U L I K

Featuring Content Creators and Photographers | Tulum 🇲🇽 — @Travelpix's mag on Magma

South Africa

South Africa - December 2020 — @LizkeBurger's mag on Magma

Holidays

Hiking

Edinburgh

Winter walks in the snow ❄️ — @zoe's mag on Magma

Sedona

Cathedral Rock trail in Sedona, AZ. — @rachelzuckerberg's mag on Magma

Amsterdam

A small series featuring Emma van der Berg. Shot at home  — @Rosanne's mag on Magma

California

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  <h1>2 days, 15 frames</h1>
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<p>a look into each image shot on a roll of portra 400, using a Mamiya 645 medium format camera</p>

<p>I traveled to the Eastern Sierra after a work project fell through, and spent two days slowly making my way along Highway 395 — one of my favorite stretches of road in the country. I brought my Mamiya 645 along for the drive and shot two rolls of film.</p>
<p>Film is often unforgiving if you don’t get your settings right on a manual setup, so I’ll take you through a journey on 120 film — mistakes and all. </p>

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