Among the damage of COVID-19 and the restrictions which keep us spaced apart or close to home, is the lack of inspiration, motivation and creativity.
I get up each day and ask myself "Am I making the best use of my time?" "Is there anything to photograph or say in my little shutdown world?" "What should I, could I do next?"
I hope you will find this list useful, not only now in July of 2020, but on any given day. Sometimes I find that just reading through an idea list is the best way to jump start my creativity again. Choose one, choose two and create a fusion. Choose more and create a collection!
Take your selected item(s) and make a wish list shoot list. Visualize 10 different photographs. Write them down. If you can't execute them now, put them aside for a future shoot. Create a wish book of cards. When you get to an idea you can execute, get your camera and create a collection of 10 new photos.
On your mark, get set, GO!
1. Patterns
2. Color
3. High Key
4. Low Key
5. Panning
6. In camera motion
7. Stop motion
8. Food
9. Back-lit
10. Sunrise
11. Sunset
12. Cityscape
13. Street Photography
14. Flowers
15. Bugs
16. Nature
17. Lifestyle
18. Posing
19. Flat Lay
20. Shooting from a ladder
21. Shooting down from a balcony or other elevated vantage point
22. Shooting up
23. Laying down and shooting up
24. Framing
25. Shooting through an object like a handful of grass or a flower
26. Using Prisms
27. Using Crystal Balls
28. Fill the Frame
29. Macro
30. Juxtaposition
31. Rearranging objects
32. Flat lighting
33. Split lighting
34. Rembrandt lighting
35 Reflections in glass, water or metal
36. Warhol the wrong colors
37. Variations in the same color
38. Color on color, all one color
39. Black and White
40. Textures
41. Bokeh
42. Photo Journalistic style
43. Found objects
44. Landscape
45. Smoke
46. Holi powder
47. Surrealism
48. Tilt shift lens
49. Translucent
50. Fire
51. Free-lensing
52. Prime lens
53.Telephoto lens
54. Hilliard method
55. Brenizer method
56. Collage
57. Story telling
58. Magazine style: Shoot an opening , closing, portrait, action and detail shot.
59. Architecture
60. Bubbles
61. Sunburst
62. Shadows
63 Selective Coloring
64. Out of Focus
65. Mixed Media
66. Conceptual
67. Inspired by a single word: Love, Peace, Kindness
68. Polaroid
69. Abstracts
70. Find shapes: circle, square, hearts
71. Silhouette
72. Frame within frames, like archways
73. Double exposure
74. Props
75. Ambient light
76. LED panels
77. ND filters
78. Color and Gradient filters
79. Staging natural elements in nature: rock patterns on beaches
80. Dancers
81. Light painting
82. Spiritual
83. Dappled lighting
84. Weather: Four season photos
85. Portraits without faces
86. Portraits without people
87. Still life
88. Natural light
89. Pano
90. HDR
91. Night photography
92. Isolation
93. Negative Space
94. Perspective
95. Water spray
96. Mundane everyday objects and situations
97. Eye level with children, dogs, bugs
98. Spray and Pray
99. Music
100. Dress the part: Change the experience by changing how you look