For any Creative Photographyphotographer one of the most important things for them to produce is creative photography. To an extent all photography requires a varying amount of creativity, mostly however the pictures produced are merely replications of shots that have been taken before. The key to creative photography is to see beyond what most people would see and to approach your photographs with a different angle or spin in them.
A simple example of this would be perspective; most people see the world from between 5 and 7ft above the ground. How about instead showing them what it would be like to see things from a couple of inches up instead or maybe as a bird from 30ft in the air. You don’t quite understand how different the outcome of a picture can be when changing something like perspective without trying and seeing for yourself. The whole idea is to create some mysterious or different idea that will produce pictures which make people sit up and go “hmm, that’s interesting”.
Showing them something which they won’t expect or something completely out of place can really have a wow factor to it, and that is the sort of response you should love as a photographer. Whether you physically produce the photos yourself or digitally alter them afterwards is two ways which you can explore yourself, some things cannot be produced in real life, but some things won’t look as effective digitally altered and you will obviously need the skills to do this. Besides, the point of creative photography is not how you create the final picture, or even how it turns out, it is about opening your mind past the normal expected views and letting yourself run free with ideas.
Another brilliant idea is the concept of speed and time. We are all familiar with the picture of traffic traveling down a road and appearing as nothing more than a blur. This is a great example of using a long shutter speed to make it look like something has happened too quickly to be captured on camera. How about looking at the alternative and capturing something that is too quick for the human eye to see? A pop of a balloon or smash of a glass are 2 examples of things that we never see exactly what happens, only the after effects so why not capture them with a very short shutter speed and see things real time. The examples above are relatively common and really just a showcase of what can be achieved when you think outside the box and that really is the whole point of creative photography – capturing the unseen, unexpected in a way nobody could imagine.
A simple example of this would be perspective; most people see the world from between 5 and 7ft above the ground. How about instead showing them what it would be like to see things from a couple of inches up instead or maybe as a bird from 30ft in the air. You don’t quite understand how different the outcome of a picture can be when changing something like perspective without trying and seeing for yourself. The whole idea is to create some mysterious or different idea that will produce pictures which make people sit up and go “hmm, that’s interesting”.
Showing them something which they won’t expect or something completely out of place can really have a wow factor to it, and that is the sort of response you should love as a photographer. Whether you physically produce the photos yourself or digitally alter them afterwards is two ways which you can explore yourself, some things cannot be produced in real life, but some things won’t look as effective digitally altered and you will obviously need the skills to do this. Besides, the point of creative photography is not how you create the final picture, or even how it turns out, it is about opening your mind past the normal expected views and letting yourself run free with ideas.
Another brilliant idea is the concept of speed and time. We are all familiar with the picture of traffic traveling down a road and appearing as nothing more than a blur. This is a great example of using a long shutter speed to make it look like something has happened too quickly to be captured on camera. How about looking at the alternative and capturing something that is too quick for the human eye to see? A pop of a balloon or smash of a glass are 2 examples of things that we never see exactly what happens, only the after effects so why not capture them with a very short shutter speed and see things real time. The examples above are relatively common and really just a showcase of what can be achieved when you think outside the box and that really is the whole point of creative photography – capturing the unseen, unexpected in a way nobody could imagine.
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