No, I’m not meaning that you need to blow a big chunk of money on some high-priced African expedition to get amazing photos of the rare South African 3-tusked hairy elephant. So put away your pith helmet, and super telephoto lenses.
What I’m actually talking about is one way in which you can either boost up your creative juices, or keep yourself sharp and innovative in how you see things. Because, let’s face it. Photography is primarily concerned with how a person sees things, and what angles and elements he uses to tell a story. But if you’re always going around taking the “walk up shot”, which is the perspective you see when you first walk up to something (the term is taken from Scott Kelby, The Digital Photography Book), then your photos are going to start falling more and more into the creative realm of snapshots and mere recording of an event. Read the rest of this entry »
If you’ve ever had a huge birthday party, or a baby shower or some other big once-in-a-lifetime event, you’ve probably got tons and tons of photos from them. Once the festivities are over you go in and dump all the photos from the camera into your computer, only to realize you must have been on burst mode because there are about 224 pictures on your memory card.