12 Creative Photography Ideas

Here are 12 ideas to get your creative juicesserial number. Then burn a CD or DVD and store
flowing and increase your skills and value as ait off site. If you have a fire or other loss, this
photographer.could save the owner thousands of dollars.
TIP 1 - Time Lapse photos. I showed my nieceTIP 7 - Family Recipe book. Anytime those family
how to do this with clay figures and stitch thefavorites are prepared, copy down the recipe and
resulting frames together into a video file, and shetake some photos of the food. You can produce
was busy for days. If you control the exposurea printed or electronic cookbook of family
consistently to keep the images consistent withfavorites that everyone will love.
one another, you can do some really funTIP 8 - Stock Photography. This is a very busy
stop-motion animation. Or, you can set up yourmarket niche, but the cost of entry is low.
camera to capture other slow motion effectsSpecialize in things you love, and you may be able
such as flowers opening and seedlings growing.to generate some income from your stock
TIP 2 - Night Lights. Things look very different atimages. Search for stock photography sites, and
night. Shooting city scenes with available lightmake sure you understand your rights before
creates some interesting images. And shootingyou post images.
outdoor images under moonlight or with "lightTIP 9 - Special Effects. Maybe you want to
painting", where you open up the camera shutterspecialize in high-speed images of athletes, or
for an extended exposure, and "paint" yoursurrealistic collages. Try your hand at using your
targets with colored or plain light, can createediting skills to put someone in a soda bottle or
some truly bizarre images.floating on a candy lifesaver. Often more artistic
TIP 3 - Astrophotography. Hook that SLR up to athan photographic, it will test your composition,
telescope, and you are ready to peer into thelighting and editing skills to come up with believable
depths of space and time. You'll need someartificial realities.
adapters, and ability to compensate for theTIP 10 - Still Life. Ahh, the bowl of fruit.
earth's rotation for really long shots. Start withSometimes a simple object or collection, properly
the moon and move on from there.lit, shot and edited, is a thing of beauty. It's a
TIP 4 - Macro photography. From flowers togreat way to study light. Start with an egg on a
coins to stamps, you can polish your skills atlight background, a lamp and a window and see
close-up photography and capture some reallyhow you can learn about lighting and composition.
detailed images. Often a macro lens or close-upTIP 11 - Computer Control. Many cameras have a
attachment will help. See my tips on FlowerUSB interface and remote control software. You
Photography to get more information.can actually control the camera from the
TIP 5 - Micro photography. If you can interfacecomputer. See if you can get it to work to your
that camera with a microscope, you can getliking, and maybe even program some time lapse
some really crazy images. Or, stack up a bunchor exposure bracketing experiments.
of close-up magnification and try your hand atTIP 12 - Be Like Andy. Take some images of
turning salt crystals into surreal imagery.everyday items and try to create those neat
TIP 6 - Insurance Photos. OK, maybe a bit boring,colored backgrounds like Andy Warhol used to
but you and your friends and relatives will thankmake. Create a 4-up print of the same image and
you. Take a couple hours and touch andchange the colors of each quadrant to make an
photograph everything of value, with a full shot orinteresting square print.
two if each item of value, accompanied by a shotHave fun with these ideas, and let me know
of the identifying marks - manufacturer model orwhen you become famous!