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What tips can you give on shooting for creative photography? |
please visit my blog: http://jeffsj.blogspot.com Above suggestions all excellent... I once wrote an article for a club on what to do get out of a creative rut and most of what I said can apply here: Creativity can come simply from trying something new to you, that isn't routine. Which is why changing angles, looking at your subjects differently, will help... Also changing formats...black and white, color, slide, film, digital...I myself started digital, when I needed a challenge, I switched to film, and I found a boost of creativity as I tried to handle this new medium. Infrared photography can yield great results. Some digitals allow for it... others need to be modified, which I don't feel comfortable doing... You can shoot film but you'd have to at least do the film development yourself. From their you can use a film scanner... Try different frames...go out shooting panoramas one day, square images another. You don't need a special camera - if you have a lot of megapixels, just "pre-visualize" your images and then crop away the top and bottom. What kind of imges do you take? Try something completely different.... if you shoot portraits, try some still lifes... still lifes offer a different kind of photography...where all your time is used in creating, setting up, and lighting your shot. Or if you do a lot of still life, try shooting people... Closeup photograsphy? You can buy a cokin filter kit with a macro lens to aid you take closeups of objects. Try different editing techniques with digital...use a digital workflow that will make your work look crossprocessed, aged, sepia, scratched, give some of your photos a new "look" Photo exercises - lots of sites have creativity exercises...taking 20 images in your house for example, doing a photo-a-day project... have a theme, like you're going to do a photo book, and go find images with that theme. I think the bottom line I'm trying to get at here is in order to be more creative, you simply have to challenge yourself to do something you normally would not. When you get to comfortable with a subject, or with your images in general, thats when you start to get in a rut, at least for me. Hope its helped. Black and white photography. Various angles. Try suspending youself in mid-air upside down. Probably the most mysterious of all events is mother nature. 3 things: - Camera angle (try "unthinkable" angles, not always at eye level) - Focus (use manual focus and experiment with depth of focus) - Composition (not always object in the middle, it's ok to have it at the corner of your picture) It is in the eyes of the beholder.I have taken photographs of living objects and was able to capture the essence or life-force of the object and therefore brought it into the photo the special glow of an flower, that special radiance of an smile or the atmosphere of an sunset. What does it take, yes it sure takes an certain understanding about Photography,films,exposures and timing, but more so it takes to be present to that moment, to be able to capture the beauty or real truth of any object or moment, our hearts need to be open, receptive to that energy or life-force that is in all things. finding the right composition. placing the subject on the right place. knowing the principles of color and perspective. and a whole lot of patience and RIGHT TIMING. ^___^ rule of thirds... imagine a tic-tac-toe board across the picture... put the subject at one of the points where two lines cross. |
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