Most of the tips so far, and indeed most of those still to come, have been of a more-or-less technical nature, but this week we have one that is a little different. It is always fun to wander around with the camera, taking pictures of birds, bees, landscapes, passing strangers or anything else that catches your eye as something a little interesting or different or just snap-worthy. But if you want to improve, you really must have a project, something that will challenge you, that will make you really work to complete.
When you choose your project, do not go for something easy, for if you go for something easy it will be difficult to learn from it, difficult to improve. You need to find something that will move you out of your “zone of comfort” and into something different.
I have a project, and I have to confess that it is not going well. I started it over a year ago, and so far have managed only some possible pictures for the first image in the series. The problem has been that I am not overly-happy with the candidates for the first image, and have totally failed to find any candidates for the second. So I have now decided, not to drop the project – although even in dropping a project there is something to learn – but to skip ahead, and start working on some of the later pictures, in the hope that finding these will help me with the challenging earlier ones.
What to choose? Well, if nothing comes to mind, just Google “photography project ideas” – you will get 224 million pages of them!