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Julia Lesagetips from digital photography school
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Alan LevineHow can you add Curiosity to your Photographic toolbox?
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13 Jan 07
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2. Ask Questions
Curious photographers are always asking questions. Questions of other photographers, questions about their own work, questions about their cameras, questions of their subjects etc
As a result they often learn things about their art (and themselves) that the rest of us don’t and their work improves because of it.
Find someone with the same camera as you and ask them how they use it. Find a photographer from a different genre to you and ask them about their techniques. Look back over your last month’s photos and ask yourself what you did well (and not so well).
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What if I held the camera on this angle…. What if I got my subject to stand like this…. What if I lay on the ground to take this shot…. What if I lengthened my shutter speed…..
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Keep a record of the questions that you ask yourself and keep coming back to them from time to time to attempt to find a solution to the problems behind the questions.
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Set yourself quests and challenges for your photography. I occasionally set myself a list of photos that I want to capture in an afternoon or will have a week where I explore a theme (the assignments in our forum are great for this).
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Find another photographer to buddy up with when you go out on shoots. Swap ideas, give each other tips and share the lessons that you learn.
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one way to think outside the box is when you put random ideas together to find new solutions to problems. Get in the frame of mind where you regularly do this and you’ll be surprised at how your mind comes up with wonderfully creative things.
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Some of my best photos have come out of periods of ‘play’ when I just fooled around with my camera with no agenda at all. Play with new angles, with different shooting distances, with shooting from different perspectives etc
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ne of the main things that I notice about curious people are that they rarely sit still and are always pushing forward and taking the initiative. Curious photographers don’t expect great photographic opportunities to come to them - but instead they actively search for them.
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ken .Nice little essay (about more than photography): break-free from rules, ask-questions, ask what-if, turn your Questions into Quests, learn from others, connect the disconnected (a la deBono), play, go with the flow, be proactive, slow down
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