- Kai Böttcher is a 25-year-old photographer who specializes in portrait photography and has about 600,000 followers on Instagram.
- He recently shared a popular compilation of behind-the-scenes photos that showed how he stages his photo shoots.
- Kai uses simple, everyday objects such as pasta strainers and bedsheets to create lighting and shadows in his photos.
- He also told Insider that the simpler the photo, the better.
- Here’s how to get the perfect shot without spending money, according to one of Instagram’s most popular photographers.
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Kai Böttcher is a self-taught photographer who specializes in portrait photography.
Böttcher said he started an Instagram page a few years ago so he could have a place to post the portrait photos he took of his friends.
The 25-year-old photographer’s Instagram page took off, garnering over half a million followers in three years.
Böttcher received so much attention for his beautiful shots that he decided to share a series of behind-the-scenes photos on his Instagram …
… that show how he cleverly stages photo shoots to help him capture the perfect shot.
Böttcher’s side-by-side photos prove that perfect Instagram pictures are all just an illusion.
“I started with sharing the behind-the-scene shots because I want to show people that you don’t always need an extravagant and expensive shooting setup to get great results,” Böttcher told Insider.
He wanted his photos to show people that they, too, can create beautiful photos without professional experience.
Böttcher revealed that some of the most basic and inexpensive props help create the best photos.
“Often a cheap Philips light or a pasta strainer for $3 is enough to get really interesting lighting patterns and effects,” he told Insider.
Böttcher recommends this portable Philips table lamp.