▪ Cut photos that you would like to try and create from magazines and newspapers or download images to a creative ideas folder on your computer and print or hang them on an inspiration board in your home office
▪ When going about anywhere, always carry your camera when you see interesting subjects and try to tell a story with your image
▪ Try paintings – look at colors, shape, and patterns on canvas
▪ Visit museums and galleries to see what motivates other artists
▪ Study from your favorite master photographer such as Robert Frank, Hagen Smith, and Henri Cartier-Bresson
▪ Go and print your images and hang them in your home! Study what images that you too in your life impact you and why
▪ Try to photograph the same subject in different lights, ways and in different weather conditions
▪ Try to photograph a different style of photograph to one that you are familiar with. If you like to photograph just people, how about trying to photograph buildings? If you like to photograph landscapes only, try to take portraits of people instead?
▪ See and dare yourself to expand your photography skills
▪ Go traveling and shoot as many different themes as possible to tell your stay. Try landscapes, people, and close ups to create photo collections to describe your holiday destination in 20-40 images
▪ Shoot with another photographer if you can, you will be able to learn a lot from each other in different point of views
▪ Try and create a long-term photography project and shoot the same object or location over an extended period, like in the 995 film “Smoke” when one of the main characters “Auggie” has been taking photographs of the store from across the street at 8am every morning and collects all his photos in albums
▪ Shoot still life. Try to be a modern painter. Try an abstract view too
▪ Photograph a night scene outdoors or in the city
▪ Change your perspective, do not always show in eye level, go low, go high, go under, and go above. Look at things differently and give your subject a new interpretation.
▪ Break photographic composition if you feel it emphasizes your story telling of your image
▪ Shoot sports and action and learn how to capture the moving subject.