As part of our ongoing series to help you get more creative with your digital camera, each month we publish some fun, seasonal, creative photo ideas to help inspire your imagination. Along with some amazing images, we’ve also provided some quick photography tips by both amateur and professional photographers who are experts in these fields.
We’re introducing April with a new list of exciting photo projects like brooding landscapes, portraits of mothers and babies, creative forests and even selling your images!
Creative photo ideas for April: 01 Shoot brooding landscapes
Trying to come up with new ways of shooting landscapes is always a good idea. It’s all too easy to fall into clichés with the landscape genre, and rely too much on tried and tested techniques that produce rather predictable images.
Kartik Rawal went to the popular landscape Jungle of Sirohi-KalkaJi, but managed to come back with something very special indeed by shooting with an DSLR, then doing some creative experimentation afterwards in Photoshop.
Kartik, whose project on deserted roads has also attracted lots of attention, explains he has been taking pictures most of his life, but became a little more obsessive about it 10 years ago while filming a documentary for Surat city.
“Getting lost is half the fun,” says Kartik of his photographic travels.
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#1 Converting your camera to infrared can yield great results – but do bear in mind that it’s a very bold step to take, as the process cannot be reversed.
#2 “Once you have found the subject you wish to shoot, be aware of its surroundings – how do they interact with your subject?” says Kartik.
#3 Kartik points, you should think carefully about how light affects the subject. “Will waiting for the ‘right light’ helps you much? A different time of day maybe, if you’re lucky?”
#3 “Then use these elements to help build a narrative for the image,” Kartik adds. “These are the stepping stones that help the viewer navigate the image and hopefully make them come back and see something different on the second viewing.”
#1 Converting your camera to infrared can yield great results – but do bear in mind that it’s a very bold step to take, as the process cannot be reversed.
#2 “Once you have found the subject you wish to shoot, be aware of its surroundings – how do they interact with your subject?” says Kartik.
#3 Kartik points, you should think carefully about how light affects the subject. “Will waiting for the ‘right light’ helps you much? A different time of day maybe, if you’re lucky?”
#3 “Then use these elements to help build a narrative for the image,” Kartik adds. “These are the stepping stones that help the viewer navigate the image and hopefully make them come back and see something different on the second viewing.”
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