Your Photographic Creativity Needs Some Exercise

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There are a lot of technical aspects to your photography. It's good to practice to make sure you know your camera settings and exposures.

However, creating a technically valid photo isn't the same as creating an interesting photo. You need both your technical capabilities and your photographic creativity to make interesting images.

In today's episode of The Photo Flunky Show, we're discussing some proven tips to help you get into a creative frame of mind.

Use the Power of Story

If you've listened to previous episodes, you've heard me say that I want a story for my photos. I'll go into more detail in this episode and list some of the different ways you can use storytelling for a photo or collection of photos.

One of the tips I share is to stop thinking of yourself as a photographer and start thinking of yourself as a storyteller. The camera is just a tool you use to tell those stories.

Once you make that leap, it changes the way you approach your photography and really drives your photographic creativity with a new sense of purpose.

I hope you enjoy this show and would love to have your feedback in the comments below.

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THE PHOTO FLUNKY SHOW:  Episode 46

 

Welcome to the Photo Flunky Show, Episode forty-six.

 

On today’s show we are going to try and give you some ideas to help you exercise your photographic creativity.

 

William:   Hi, thank you very much for listening to the show.  We appreciate you.  My name is William Beem and I am not afraid of heights, but I am afraid of falling.

 

Lee:         No high places, therefore.

 

William:   No, it’s not a matter of height. If I am safe and secure up someplace high, I don’t mind it.  But I could be standing on a ledge six inches off the ground and if there is not enough room for me to balance myself I’m really deathly terrified of falling.

 

Lee:         I think that comes with age as well. I am more afraid of falling now.

 

William:   Oh, no I was afraid like that as a kid, but it’s one of those weird things. It’s not so much the height. It’s the fall.  So I am never going to be a paratrooper.

 

Lee:         OK. Well here’s my weirdness. I don’t like milk on my cereal.

 

William:   That is weird.

 

Lee:         I cannot have anything that goes mushy and the milk will make it go mushy so I put yogurt in my bowl and the cereal goes on top of it, but as soon as it mixes it has to be crunchy.

 

William:   You know that cereal stays crunchy if you just eat it quickly.

 

Lee:         I don’t like it wet. And I don’t like milk.