Tip 19 - Find Something Interesting In An Ordinary Place
Did you find the relation between the above two photos? Did you realize they were taken in the same place?
What would you see if you were there? Are you the first photographer or the second? Many of you might have stopped taking photos during the pandemic - I get it. I felt the same frustration when we couldn’t travel. That doesn’t mean you can’t find the inspiration. In fact, beauty is everywhere!
Instead of seeing a plain field as shown in the first photo, look from a different angle other than your eye level. Reach down and angle up, reach up and angle down, walk up, get up close etc and etc. (Check out 5 Photos You Can Capture To Spice Up Your Story Telling) See if you can come up with something interesting in an ordinary place (second photo).
Now, what does this have to do with photographing people, my family and kids? You might ask. It’s the same concept. Unless you want to photograph your family and kids in the same place all the time, you want to learn how to photograph them in different light scenarios or environment, perhaps on a vacation.
If you learn to find something interesting in an ordinary place, you will be able to create beautiful images for your family and kids almost anytime and anywhere.
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Your exercise
Give yourself a task today - find 3 things in or around your familiar surroundings that you might have always overlooked. See if you can find beauty in it.
See my image above - the result of my exercise. Instead of photographing the green colors on a forest hike, I found a red leaf on the ground.
The above is another example. Instead of photographing my kid from his front, at eye level, I lowered myself to photograph him from the end of a tree trunk.
In fact, without regular exercises like these, your photos will just look like millions of others, instead of from the unique YOU.
Let me share my favorite quote from one of my all time favorite photographers:
“To me, photography is an art of observation.
It’s all about finding something interesting in an ordinary place...
I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see,
and everything to do with the way you see them.”
- ELLIOTT ERWITT (MAGNUM PHOTOGRAPHER)
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