Digital Photography

Record your ideas, the great ones come when you least expect it. Sometimes you’ll get the idea for a great photo or series of photos when you’re sitting in a restaurant, daydreaming, or doing your daytime gig. When your brilliant idea is still fresh in your mind, write it down, or use a voice recorder to note the idea before it disappears. I always carry a small Moleskine notebook with me and a Fisher Space Pen to write my ideas down while they’re still fresh in my mind.

Great photographs are made by creative photographers who stretch the envelope. You can enhance your creativity by trying new things. Schedule a time each week when you experiment with new techniques or new equipment. Julia Cameron, author of “The Artist’s Way” calls this an “Artist’s Date.” When I do this, I limit myself to 1 or 2 lenses and I often visit familiar territory.  When you photograph a familiar place and the goal is to enhance your creativity, do things differently. Shoot from a different vantage point and use a different lens than you’d normally use for the subject.  When I was out on a recent “Artist’s Date,” I spotted flowers that had fallen from a tree randomly scattered on the grass. Normally I’d photograph something like this from above and zoom in. Instead I put my Lensbaby Composer on the camera with the +4 and +10 macro attachments, placed the camera on the grass, and composed the scene through my LCD monitor using LiveView.