Thursday, October 11, 2007

Inspire Your Photography With a Visual Diary

Here is a technique for inspiring your photographs: keep a diary of images taken by others as inspiration for trying new things. Digital Photography School has a great article on how to do this.

This photographer had gotten in the habit of cutting out images that inspired her from newspapers, magazines, advertising brochures, postcards etc. She even printed shots from online to stick in her visual notebook. The other section of her visual notebook was a place for writing and drawing ideas. When she thought of an idea to photograph in the day to day of life she’d make a note of it (or even draw a little sketch to help her remember) so she could come back to it later to do a photo shoot around the idea.

Read more here.

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