How to break through the bottleneck and maintain the passion for photography

2009-9-4 1 1:54:38 This is a very common situation: one day you become keen on photography, seize every opportunity to take pictures and improve your work. You keep this state for a while, but slowly, the enthusiasm you once had begins to fade. You start to feel that you are standing still, and everything you shoot is the same, always repeating. How to rekindle the enthusiasm for photography? If you haven't met the bottleneck, how can you avoid it? Here are 13 tips to keep yourself enthusiastic about photography: 1. Bring your camera pictures from the Internet anytime, anywhere. You may have heard of this, but it won't help you much. Take at least one camera with you, so that you can shoot at any time when you feel inspired or have a chance to shoot. This is easy to realize now, and the ubiquitous camera phone provides you with more shooting flexibility. Also, we must truly be "anytime, anywhere". This means taking your camera to the dentist's office, convenience store or even a short trip. It's terrible to see an excellent shooting opportunity without a camera. 2. Start your own 365 plan. You may have heard of or seen this plan. Project 365 is a word created by Amit and Kara of Photojojo. Basically, this means taking one or more photos every day of the year. It has two advantages: by the end of the year, you will have a photo file that records every day of the year. What better way to record your life than through photos? After 365 days of shooting, you will grow in a way you never imagined, and you will try countless new things to help you learn and progress. The picture comes from the Internet. Accepting comments and pictures from the Internet and receiving feedback from other photographers can not only inspire you, but also broaden your horizons and let you find ways to improve yourself or different shooting methods. If you don't have the opportunity to join a photography class or a photography club, you can consider posting your works online and listening to the audience's comments on your photos. One of the best ways is to publish your work to the online photography community, which will lead us to the next trick: 4. Join a club. There are thousands of services on the Internet that allow you to store photos and share them with your family, friends or netizens all over the world. Choose a website you like and join the community. Establish contact with the authors of the works you appreciate and let them know what advice you want them to give you. These photographers can not only inspire you through their works, but also guide you through their comments. 5. Give yourself a shooting task. An excellent way to broaden your horizons is to narrow your attention. Set a goal or choose a theme and stick to it. For example, you can decide to shoot only shadows or reflections, and then keep this goal in mind and look around. When you actively look for it, you may notice more shadows or reflections. Can you see what my theme is from the following series of photos? I walked around the house, looking for groups of things and finding them one by one in numerical order. A thermostat, two stuffed toys, three sticky notes, four chair legs, and so on. Pictures come from the Internet. Here are some tasks you can try: patterns and textures, unconventional angles, creative framing, choosing an object that you can see everywhere (such as fire hydrant, bicycle, door handle), portraits (family, friends, even passers-by). If you want a completely original idea, you can try to consider something that you have never seen in a photo, or take a photo in a way that you have never tried before. 6. change places if you find yourself staying in the same place day after day, maybe what you need is a change of scenery. This can be as simple as changing the way you go to school or work. Always stay indoors? Then going out to sweep the street is another way to change the location and an excellent way to make the photos more interesting. Take a vacation, bring your camera and keep your eyes open. 7. Learn something new If you find that your technology or post-processing skills haven't improved for a long time, it's time to learn something new. If you really know everything about photography, maybe you should take a break. The rest of us always have something to learn or improve. Find something you don't know and learn! It can be as simple as a button or setting on a camera. Do you know every little function of your camera? Have you browsed all the operation menus? When was the last time you read the instructions? Open it, maybe you can find some basic functions that you have been ignoring.