Whether you’re an amateur photographer looking to expand your list of ideas just for fun, or a professional looking for some new shots to consider while you’re out in the field, all of these photography ideas can be spun in many different ways to get the creative
Wide Angle
If a scene or location is getting overused and tired in your repertoire, you could try buying a wide angle lens. Wide angle lenses allow you to capture a broader scope of a scene as opposed to a standard lens or a telephoto lens that focus on the straight and narrow. Wide angle lenses are often used in films to capture a large room or multiple characters in tight shooting quarters where backing up or zooming out can no longer be done. Wide angle lenses don’t have to be an expensive addition to your film kit, but a good wide angle lens will obviously yield the best results. If you’ve already tried using a wide angle lens and are looking for a few more ideas to do with it, try shooting the same scene or object with many different lenses to add different depths and characteristics to a room.
Night Time
A great photography idea you can implement without any cost is simply waiting a few hours and heading out into the field at night. There’s an eeriness to the night time that can’t be captured in a photo editing suite in “post.” To capture the nighttime you’re going to need a decent camera that’s capable of different shutter speeds to let different amounts of light in to capture the different brightnesses of what you’re photographing. Scenes at night obviously aren’t as bright as they are during the day, so different shutter speeds will allow more light into the camera than normal, allowing the image to become clearer. You can also try playing with these low light backdrops to create some photography for your Halloween party next year.
Speed Photography
The last photography idea we’ll throw your way is one that takes a little bit of creativity and study to get the benefit from. If you head to an event that’s happening quickly, like a horse race or a sporting event, you obviously have to have a quick trigger finger to be able to capture all of the action without missing a beat. If you’re just getting started, this can be hard to do and the easiest way to get all of the footage you want without missing any of it is to go “trigger happy” and snap wildly as a race or play takes place. When you get home, you can start the real work behind this technique.
WIth your finger going wild on the button, it’s easy to assume that you got a few decent shots out of everything you managed to capture. The trick now is to whittle down the few good shots that you have from the bad ones and begin to study them. You can take the time to study these photos in comparison to the ones that you threw to see what makes them “keepers” rather than ones you’re getting rid of. As you go back to more events similar to the original one you went to, you can try and implement some new photography ideas to try and figure out how to recapture the same moments without simply mashing the button. Once you’ve got your technique figured out, you can make better use of your time at a fast paced event getting your camera setup just right so that when something awesome happens, you’re ready to take the shot.
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