Lack of INSPIRATION? How to be creative in photography?
- March 07, 2019
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- Alexia
Today I'm going to talk to you about how to be more creative in photography! There are people who are naturally creative, they will always be inspired and always have ideas. Before I thought that I too was not capable of being creative, and I thought that there were people who were born with this gift of being creative. We experience sensations all the time, only we are not on the lookout for what we feel.
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| Image by @matthieu_george |
That's why the first advice I could give you in order to be more creative is to listen to yourself. I know it may sound complicated, but in fact you have to know the difference between something you find beautiful because you've seen it lot, everywhere on social networks, it's a trend or something you find beautiful in essence, because you've always found it beautiful. If you want to be creative, you have to photograph what you like personally, what touches you. When you feel something, just shoot it, without even worrying about the rules of photography.
Keep your camera with you at all times. If you don't have the opportunity or time, it doesn't stop you from thinking about the picture you could take. Find the subject, frame the picture and think about how you would take the shot, all mentally. It will exercise your eye a lot, and make you think creatively.
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| Image by Chris (@som_picture) |
Be inspired by other people. Be careful, it is not a question of copying other people's work. It is about seeing and understanding how others see the world, in order to confront you with other points of view, to put you in their shoes and to see things "through their eyes". This will allow you to change your perspective and see things differently.
Here are some instagram accounts that inspire me:
Here are some instagram accounts that inspire me:
Do not be afraid of what people think. I guarantee you that if you lie on the floor in the street to take THE shot you want, no one cares. It's hard to believe, but you're not the center of the world 😛. People will just vaguely look at you, and forget you within 30 seconds. Anyway, they've already seen more crazy things than you, don't worry.
Once you have taken one or multiple pictures, what I recommend is to "let them rest". This will allow you to add an important ingredient to your picture: the time 🕔. Only time will tell you whether you really like a picture or not. So let your photos sleep for a while (1 month, 3 months or even 1 year). You can leave them in a corner of your computer or make prints of them. After a while, reopen this box with all the pictures you've taken. Some photos will leave you completely unmoved, in which case you can throw them away. But other pictures will remind you directly of the feeling you had when you took them.
Here, I hope that these tips will allow you to develop all this creativity buried in you, and to make more personal shoot. 😊
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