Improve your photography with easy to digest DSLR tips

Are you ever hungry but don’t know what you want to eat?

I know that happens to me!

It can also happen with my photography, I want to go out shooting but I don’t know what I want to shoot, landscape, urban, close-up, family?

So when I’m in a rut like that then I tend to use one of these 3 tips to help me out of it:

1. Online Photo Sites

I’ll jump on Flickr or Pinterest and browse through their ‘explore’ or ‘what’s hot’ sections and just see what jumps off the screen at me.

I love looking at images as well as shooting them so this is an easy one for me. There’s lots of other sites besides these two and a lot of them have groups/communities you can join. Google+ has a great photography community as well…

2. The best camera is the one you have with you

I’ll always have a camera on me whenever I go out, whether I’m dropping the kids at school or going to the shops, something will catch my eye and I’ll take a quick shot.

Now don’t have visions of me walking down the street with a huge rucksack trying to go in the greengrocers? There’s nothing wrong with camera phones, in fact these days I think there’re just as good as a point and shoot, and I always have my phone on me! (killed 2 birds with 1 stone!).

3. Inspiration folder

I tend to pick things up as I go along from magazines, newspapers, postcards etc… that catch my eye, and put them altogether in a folder so I can look through them for inspiration when I’m stuck (ok, they might not be in a folder and they might be stuffed in my bookcase, but you know what I mean!).

This is also a great way of realising what kind of photography you like if you’re not sure. Look through what you’ve cut out, is there a recurring theme like a lot of animals, or landscapes, buildings, night shots, close ups etc…

Do you have other ways you get your inspirational juices flowing??? Let us know in the comments below…

Mandy

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