Forum: Photography


Subject: Where/What should I take pictures of tomorrow?

vulcanccit opened this issue on Feb 16, 2007 ยท 10 posts


girsempa posted Sat, 17 February 2007 at 6:33 PM

There are lots of ways to use your cam... registering what you see in front of you is just one of them. I read once that photography is about making a photograph, rather than about taking a picture... I had roughly the same problem as you are experiencing now... Then I started thinking in the direction of 'creating' images with all different techniques that the camera can offer..: long (handheld) exposures with or without camera panning or zooming... experimenting with all sorts of bokeh (out of focus) effects... using alternative lighting techniques... letting shapes, colors and lines do the talking, not subjects... I found that the subject in itself didn't really matter... whether it's beautiful or interesting or not, you can create images that are taking on an interesting photographic life of their own, totally independant of what they depict... And the most important thing: besides being an interesting experience and learning to use the cam to unknown potentials, it's a lot of fun...


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