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<\/p>\nAnyone who has pursued photography as either a hobby or a profession knows the single greatest challenge is inspiration: What to photograph. Whether you\u2019re planning to share your photos online, keep them in a private book, or display them on your walls as a canvas print collection, every photographer at every level has had rough days where they simply can\u2019t seem to get any inspiration.<\/p>\n
Sometimes you have to try different things or look at the world in a different way to break out of patterns and limitation you might not even be consciously aware of. Sometimes the patterns that have locked you into boring, well-trodden ideas are nearly invisible to yourself, and it takes literally changing up your perspective to see new lands to explore. Here are some great, easy ways to try something different and see your corner of the world in a new way.<\/p>\n
The default setting when searching out new subjects for our photography tends to be changing our location: We pack up our gear and head out to some place new, some place we\u2019ve never seen before, and look for inspiration. And it usually works! Except, of course, when it doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
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When a new location doesn\u2019t get the juices flowing, try this: Take a photo of a single place, every day, at a different time. Make it a long-term project and time it out by minutes, or a smaller scale and show up at a different hour until you\u2019ve covered all 24 possibilities. The trick here is that you\u2019re forcing yourself to view the same scene where only invisible, intangible things have changed \u2013 like time, and light and shadows, and your mood and state of mind. It forces you to see things in a wholly new way.<\/p>\n
Many amateur photographers get caught up in the belief that photographs have to be dynamic and exciting \u2013 they must depict something in motion, or a moment in time where action is frozen at its most thrilling point. The idea of simply photographing \u2018things\u2019 seems ridiculous, but a still life persists as a popular technique for a reason.<\/p>\n
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The trick is to find the drama in a moment when the action is finished. For example, imagine a demonstration in the streets, but instead of making a canvas print of an image of the protesters and the smoke and the police, you photograph the trampled signs and debris left behind \u2013 it can be just as powerful, if not more so.<\/p>\n
You may not have any protests in your house or around it (not counting children refusing to go to bed at night) but your home and its surroundings no doubt has plenty of these still life scenes that show the powerful absence<\/em> of people. It\u2019s a change from portraits and action scenes that can force your brain to completely reset its creative perspective, usually to very powerful effect.<\/p>\n The thread in these suggestions is change: Changing the way you approach your art and your hobby or profession. Think about how you usually do things \u2013 and then simply do it a different way. If you don\u2019t like it, you can always switch back, after all.<\/p>\n