How to take Instagram-worthy photos of your Christmas decorations

The mandatory pictures of Christmas trees festooned with twinkling fairy lights are already taking over Instagram feeds – and after hours of untangling lights and artfully arranging baubles and ornaments, it’s no surprise that we want to show off our festive creations to the world.A top-quality image is worth a thousand words (and a thousand likes) but we’ve all had some photograph fails, and there’s nothing worse than when brightly lit decorations turn into a blurred mess as the camera struggles to find the right focus. But, help is at hand. Here, Victoria Erdelevskaya, interior photography specialist at Heal’s, shares some advice on how to take your Christmas photography skills to the next level. Brighten the scene but forget the flashUsing the in-built flash can cancel out the ambient light which is what will give your Instagram image a warm and cosy feel. One way to solve this is to underexpose your image, which will make the fairy lights dimmer in the context of your image, allowing the ambient light to still provide depth and dimension to the rest of the room. You can underexpose your image by placing your finger on a brighter part of the frame before hitting…
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