When you really look at a scene you may find things to photograph you might not have noticed at first glance.
When you are looking for things to photograph, study your surroundings. There are plenty of photo opportunities even in places that look anything but photographic.
A good exercise for budding photographers is to set yourself a challenge to photograph a predetermined subject matter such as numbers, signs, a particular colour or shapes like circles or rectangles.
Go out with your camera and set yourself an hour to complete the task. When you set yourself a challenge to capture a particular subject, you have to look to find it in a larger scene.
As you do you’ll see a range of things that you may not otherwise notice.
Part of what sets a good photographer apart from a mediocre one is the ability to see the possibilities in a scene.
Hi,
Nice blog. One exercise that I did when I was studying photography was to choose a few letters of the alphabet and to see them in your surrounds (and I don't mean looking for the letters "printed" on a billboard etc.) e.g. a manhole cover was an "O" and the handle of a cup could be a "p" etc. You get the idea.
Cheers from Australia
David Jacobs
QliQ photography
http://www.qliqphotography.com/blog
Hi David
Cheers to you from north bay, California.
I love the idea of finding alphabet characters in 'things'. I hadn't thought about doing that and I will give it a try on my next assignment.
One of my favourite 'challenges' is to find puddles of water and to see what you can see in them. The images are transient and when you move even a foot in any direction the reflection changes so much.
I think so many people go around looking but seldom actually see just what is in front of them. Photography gives us the chance to do otherwise.
I'm off to check out your blog.
thanks for stopping by…
Helen