Trick photography is one of the most fascinating branches of photography, it is an artistic way of adding special effects to photographs by using both in-camera techniques and image editing. Used skillfully these techniques will produce photos that are not only stunning to see but also makes one speculate how these were made. Although there is a wide choice of equipment at one's disposal to help enhance image quality, there are in-fact only a few items of equipment required to start taking pictures with effects. The camera can be any type of DSLR camera, this is a digital single lens reflex camera meaning it allows the photographer to look directly through the lens and therefore view exactly what will be photographed, also photographs taken are stored digitally instead of using film. Another advantage of this type of the camera is it permits lenses to be changed depending on the type of subject being shot, it usually comes with an 18-55mm lens suitable for illusion photography. A new camera would also require a memory card to store the photographs in, and these are available in different capacities. Another requirement is a tripod to keep the camera still while taking long exposure shots and as long as the tripod is steady, any old used one would do. In this type of photography it is frequently the case to alter images using graphics editing software. One of the most popular packages is Adobe's Photoshop, however, a very good free graphics editing application may also be downloaded, called The Gimp. These recommendations are the bare essentials to help one get introduced to this fascinating category of photography, but as always happens the equipment kit increases in size with experience and purpose.Regardless of what equipment is at hand, it is creative thinking and knowledge of trick photography techniques that are what is important when taking first-rate special effects pictures, these are a few of the frequently used effects:Long-exposure photography:Utilizing slow shutter speeds to obtain what is referred to as motion blur. Long-exposures are usually done in low-light conditions having a motionless subject against other rapidly moving ones. For example a person standing next to of a moving train will capture the person clearly while the train is a blur.HDR photography:HDR is short for High Dynamic Range. It is a effect achieved by graphics editing to embellish contrast in light or dark areas of a photograph, it has a general outcome of making photographs look more vivid naturally or exaggerating the contrast for artistic effect.Infrared Photography:Almost all infrared shots are of stationary objects like landscapes due to the long-exposure times needed when capturing IR images. These types of pictures are normally edited using graphics software after taking the photograph to tweak the color hue.360x180 Planet panoramas:This is a technique requiring images to be taken all around and all the way up or down, consequently the name 360x180. photos are then assembled together using a software tool to form an image resulting in what appears like a spherical field of view. The Droste Effect:This is an technique where a photo has the same smaller picture inside the main picture and so on indefinitely, again this is produced by manipulating the image using a graphics editor.