10 Photo Ideas

1. Pay homage to one of your favourite photographers.

2. Photograph some hands; working, not working, muddy ones, wrinkly ones, soft ones, small and large.

3. How about photographing feet?

4. Go Black and White for a day. Get back to the old days… You could set your (digital) camera to do this, but since you can do it pretty easily in most photo software, it might be an idea to just try out every photo as a B&W image.

5. Saturate everything with glorious colour. (Good job you didn’t use the B&W setting on the camera eh?) This can work really well if you have images containing just a few complimentary colours.

6. Play with the hue… if you’ve always wondered what it does.. check it out. It basically cycles through the colour palette, reds become yellows, become greens.

7. Take pictures from a moving vehicle, such as a car or train; please don’t do this while driving a car… you’ll be busy with the camera. Pick fast shutter speeds if you want to get some detail, and you’ve got some available light… for obvious reasons; don’t use a flash. Shooting from the side window, things are going to get plenty of motion blur, particularly those objects which are closest to you. Pointing the camera towards the front or back will reduce blurring. At night, with longer exposures, you can get some interesting effects, with the trails of head lights being the most intense light source…

8. Take some abstract shots; out of focus, long exposures, you name it… includes the occasional mistake which can make for an interesting image.

9. Abstraction again; this time go in close. Look for interesting surfaces, wood, bark, peeling paint, or rusting metal can all have intriguing patterns and textures.

10. Last one; number ten is maybe the most important… Have fun!