Learn Digital Photography – Learning Creative Photography

Everyone wants to be able to create a beautiful image. Creative photography is a buzzword on the internet right now. People want to be more creative and learn to take pictures like the ones you see in travel books and magazines. This is how you can become more creative.

There’s a difference between being creative and showing good technique in your images. A creative photographer uses all the principles and rules to his advantage, but does not rely on them for the final image. The dictionary definition of creativity is “the ability to transcend traditional or similar ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, and create new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations, etc. with meaning; originality, progressiveness, or imagination.”

So how do you learn to be more creative? I say this because we are all creative, some more than others.

1. Look for inspiration

What inspires you in life? Flowers, fauna, abstracts, people or landscapes? If they are flowers, look at the flowers. In your garden, on websites or in books and magazines. If you are going to create images from the things that inspire you, study them from different aspects, angles and perspectives. Know your subject. Without a good understanding of your subject, you won’t understand the best angles or features.

2. Take your time

Time, we all need more, but if you spend enough time on your photography, you will reach the levels of creativity you desire. Have you ever heard of an artist or musician (speed painters excluded) who sits down and starts painting at high speed? They take their time and weigh what they are going to create. Sit back and watch your subject or scene. What parts do you want to focus on and highlight? What angles look better than others? Taking the time to get to know your topic will always boost your creativity.

3. Shoot frequently

You can’t expect to get more creative if you don’t take photos frequently. Taking photos regularly will increase your creativity automatically. The bottom line here is practice. You can’t increase the skill if you don’t practice your art. You can also stop reading this article if you don’t determine that you will shoot more often. Here is a little exercise for you to be disciplined. Take one photo a day for 365 days. You can take a scene or an area and film or film something different each day. Don’t let this replace photo shoots and regular outings. You will still need these.

4. Shoot intensely

What I mean by this is take a subject and explore all the possible takes you can think of. Here is another exercise that will help you. Take an object, which could be a table fork or a soft toy, photographically scan it from all possible angles, and then shoot it 100 times. The challenge is to take 100 different images of the same subject. Before you say “no way,” try it out. It is very possible. Change your camera settings, focus on different points of the object and look from new angles. The more you take, the more you will have to think and think of creative alternatives.

5. Learn to apply the rules of good composition

Once you have taken your images, evaluate them. Are they balanced? Have you excluded clutter? Are you close enough? Could you have chosen a better angle? Get yourself a good book or article on composition. Most photographers do not evaluate what they are doing and often leave it to others. Looking at your images with a critical eye will help you assess whether the image that was in your mind was transferred to your sensor and a great image was recorded. If it didn’t, shoot again. How can you improve the image next time? Get your friends to give their opinion. Taking a course or reading a book on basic photography will help you learn the basic rules. They support creativity and show your skill.

Creativity is not something only some people are born with. How it develops and nurtures is the important issue. By focusing on these five steps, you’ll learn how to be more creative and produce amazing images you never thought possible. Don’t be afraid to experiment. Happy shooting!