7 ways to overcome the photographer creative stupor
Motivation / / December 19, 2019
Photographer Nick Sparks from Denver deals portrait photography for a long time and has developed several effective ways to help him overcome the crisis, when it is not short of ideas and there is no successful frames. It is possible that many budding photographers among our readers his advice is also useful.
If the hand does not rise to take a new picture, but my head is completely out of ideas for a new photo shoot or cycle is the time taken for the implementation of one of the seven tips from Nick.
1. Just go and shoot all you see
Human brain is arranged rather peculiar: it seems to us, that we should come up in advance and think about what and how we are going to shoot the photo, but in reality it is not. You can lose days and weeks, suffering in search of a plot and forms of expression. And you can just go out - and take pictures. The process of photography itself can become a source of inspiration for the ideas that you then implement in the studio. Even a fire hydrant and lampposts can suddenly tell you an idea of which is a start in the future. Shoot everything that gets in your field of vision. The process of such a search could lead to the most unexpected pleasant results.
2. Find one color - and remove it
Select the countryside or on the streets - and note items, clothing, cars of the same color. Shoot everything only in this color, narrow down your search and observation before this one color. Each color - his mood. There are many different unexpected colors and shades, which you can watch and record; each has its own emotional coloring and its interpretation - read about it at their leisure, the internet is full of materials on this subject.
3. Photograph emotions
Creating a collection of photos based on any one of the selected emotions can spur your creative flair and a good source of inspiration for other creative achievements. Capture smiles, if you are looking for a suitable plot for a happy story; Search smiles and positive emotions can lead you to situations and landscapes, where a smile is not the center of the composition, and a complementary part. As a source for searching for specific moods and emotions of other photographers and artists can use Pinterest.
4. Take care of street photography
The business part of the city, subway stations, places with large concentrations of people - iedalnye point for street photography, where every day played a variety of stories and convey different emotions, to feel it all, try to go to places to put yourself in place heroes, give them a little history in one large - sometimes something you can even accidentally capture a landmark on busy city streets.
5. Try a new shooting technique, which had not shot
It is not just about the hardware, or a variety of accessories, and that if you removed earlier portraits, then try to still lifes and landscapes. If previously filmed scenery - try marinistiku, street photos or Subject photography. At first it will be difficult and unusual; but the shooting of the new technique is able to quickly teach you new techniques for working with ovescheniem, with color, processing pictures with shutter speed and aperture - there are plenty of opportunities for self-development and creativity growth.
6. Go somewhere where you have not been
Gather your lenses, camera and flash in a backpack, take some personal belongings - and hit the road to where you've always wanted to visit, but not yet. And sometimes you just go on the road, without a specific goal: Let your intuition leads and finding inspiration - see where they lead you. So you can not just fill up a portfolio and gain inspiration, but you can buy a new life experience, which is not less important is the photographer than his skills.
7. Start with someone joint project
Cooperation - it is always fun, because you are so complement each other, making it a joint project. To cooperate, you can select not only a different photographer, but also a fashion model, makeup artist, professional set designer, around the world, as the people in your photo shoots attract acquaintances, friends, or even neighbors. In these joint projects are born hchasto original ideas with decent sales.