Pick a theme to improve your photography today
Sometimes it's hard to think of what to photograph. You just can't find the inspiration to shoot anything. So here's a good idea to get those creative juices flowing: come up with a theme and shoot as many photos as you can that relate to it. I'll give you an example:
Recently where I live there was some major storm activity. The rain was amazing: I've never seen so much in such a short space of time. Neither had my city as most of it's storm water drains overflowed and we were in the midst of a 1 in a 100 year flood! It only took 12 hours to go from a light sprinkle of rain to flooding the city.
Now this would make a great theme for some photographs. Actually there could be several themes here, storms, floods, floating cars!, broken fences, a lot to choose from. Say we picked storms as the theme. Ok now we've got to brainstorm as many things as we can think of that relate to storms:
* Clouds
* Rain
* Thunder
* Lightening
* Umbrellas
* Snow
* Hail
* People running for cover
* Puddles
So now we have a list of things to try to photograph, see how this works? It's really just a tool to get your mind thinking about things differently. Here's another example: toasters! How many places can you take a photograph of a toaster?
* Your kitchen
* Do you have one at work?
* Your friends houses
* The dump
* At a garage sale
* At the local coffee shop
These lists can become really huge! But it's a great way to come up with interesting new angles to look at things. It doesn't have to be as silly as toasters either, you could do a set of themed photos about your partner or kids. Photos of them at home, work and play could make a great present for their next birthday or Christmas.
So how many themes can you think of? Start brainstorming now...
Keith Pierpoint is mad about photography. He runs a website that has lots of digital photography tips you can put into practice right now. If you found this article interesting, you should find out how you can learn digital photography techniques that will improve your images today.
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