30 Sparkling Ideas To Use String Lights For Your Portrait
Using props is part of what makes a shot unique on its own. There’s a lot of things to choose from such as musical instruments, fruits and string light. In some of our previous posts, we have listed some spectacular ideas to take photo with guitar. It’s basically an essential to those guitar ladies out there! Choosing a prop don’t have to be difficult. It can be any readily available item around us. You can be sitting by the cafe and sipping a cup of coffee. There it is! You can make striking poses while holding a cup that would be your next nice profile picture. This time around, we’re looking at string light. Let’s see how we can use this festive ornament lighting to bring more radiance into our Instagram worthy album!
Please choose string lights wisely. Worn-out string lights or those made out of cheap plastic might not be safe to touch. Also be sure to use water-proof types if you’re taking shots involving wet hands and environments.
1. String Light To Me
Make a trail of light leading to you! You can be in your room and this shot will still look great!
2. Umbrella Light
Light up your day with a lighted umbrella! A little crafting may be needed for this gorgeous effect!
3. Holding Lights In Hands
Be the light for others in the dark! Hold a string light in your hands!
4. Bed of Light
The bed becomes the stage for this amazing portrait shot. Just add some string lights!
5. Light Rail
Create the light rail that leads to your heart! This involves a play of camera focus. It’s pointed to the hands. This allows the string light become beautiful bokeh and at the same time a blurred image of yourself.
6. Classic Hand Hold With Sprinkles of Light
You may have seen this in a lot of travel shots as it stormed the Instagram world once upon a time. This adds a little spark to that classic shot!
7. Wear It Like A Crown
Talk about a brilliant idea! Please do be careful and be sure you’re working with a high quality string light. The shot looks good with the nice bokeh mix from the background. The sunset color matches that of the string light perfectly. It’s beautiful.
8. Lay Down And Hug Your Pet
Create a standing perspective from a smart tilt of the camera! It’s always nice to see a common pose at a different view!
9. Pull it Over Your Head
Yellow lights, yellow dress and a stunning yellowish background! It’s a good combination of color right there!
10. Holding A Jar of Lights
A jar of lights to illuminate the night! It’s a good prop to really make your face shine!
11. Comb It Like It’s Your Hair
Put it up like it’s a hair accessory. That’s how you get glowing hair that outshines the rest in the night!
12. From The Back
Trail of light is always good idea and there’s a lot of different poses to try it! The camera man will hold one end and the model will hold the other. Now go crazy with the poses!
13. Wear It On Your Head
Style your hair like how you would with hair bandana! You don’t have to use the entire length of the string light. The trick is to just hold the excess at your front.
14. Hold It Like You’re Gonna Eat It
You’re hungry and you can eat anything. Now, hold it close to your mouth!
15. Thunderstorm Hair
What a stunning mix of hair and light. It creates the illusion as if it’s a dark thunder cloud.
16. Wear It Over Neck
Play with focus and create that bokeh! It’s like floating little lemons surrounding this model!
17. Light Hug
Hug the string happily! Part of a good portrait shot lies in the expressions!
18. Let It Light Up Your Face
The shines reflected on the glasses makes this model looks like she’s having light freckles!
19. Breathe Into Your Hands
Your hands need some warmth. So, blow that warmth into your hands!
20. Ground Lights
Lay some foreground work to setup the best stage for your next portrait. You just need string lights, basically.
21. Grateful
Be grateful for you’ve been given some light in your life! Just look at that grateful face.
22. Beach Reflection
Don’t forget about that reflection! It creates more lighting in your shot from below.
23. Hold It Up
Put up those string lights like you’re hanging your clothes to be dried. You can try other poses too! Integrate your daily chores into your shot! Don’t be shy!
24. Around Your Back
Wear it like a cape. It’s cold and you need something to warm your bareback!
25. Lavender Field
Create a stunning scene on flower beds with string lights. In this shot, lavender field gets to shine in a unique way. It brings out the uniqueness of the lighting and the surrounding. Truly mesmerizing!
26. Lighted Flow Dress
Extend the beauty of your dress with lighting on the ground! These string lights look like they’re part of the model’s dress and it sure looks amazing!
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27. Wear It On Your Face
Pour the string light onto your face. The lighting from top to bottom is what makes this an epic shot!
28. Carry It On Your Shoulder
Light up the shadow! This silhouette shot gets a little sparks here and there. It wears off the gloominess too!
29. Wrapped Around
Christmas is near and you need string lights around a tree. Except, you can’t find one. So, get the closest couple and wrap them up instead!
30. Floating Lights
These lights look like they’re circling around the model! A curly string light could do the trick!
