Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]1. staged photography ! take important historic events and reconstruct them with a twist and use them to comment the world we live in today 2. Macro 3. travel in history - finde old paintings - more thatn 70 years old - find the places and reshoot the scenes trying to reconstruct the painters or photographers point of view - make a before and after exhibition 4. take a plunge into usharp blurred images making all your previous pictures into new elements 5. model or nude shooting - not tacky glamour/sex but artistic studies of the human body in BW etc. 6. Pinhole - drop the lens - take the camera cap and make a tine hole .. etc 7.undrwater photography 8. Arial photography 9. Astro photography - night photography 10. trickphotography 11. Take som popular photography mags. from th 40-50ties and explore the way they build up images 12 self portraits - do wat Cindy Sherman did - dress up like pres. Nixon in drag or ?? 13. alternative techniques - use aqvarelle papir for print - hand colour bw shots 14 - go amok in photoshop 15. tak a object like a stick, a rock or ... and photograph it for a year - then finally you will get the hang of it - Edward Steichen did a cup for a year 16. Nature Mortes / Still Lebend are great so many things to do cheers Ruebn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob McClure" <rmcclure2@woh.rr.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 4:49 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Out of Ideas > > Hello, > > I've run into a dry spell where I'm just about out of photo ideas. I't > seems like I've photographed every barn, cow, bird, bridge, landscape, > sunrise and sunset within a 30 mile radius of my home base here in central > Ohio (about 3000 images). I've also run dry at our vacation home on Lake > Erie (about 1000 images). In recent correspondence with my brother in > Maryland, he is also in the same photo slump. I don't really like > shooting people, other than family snaps, so street photography holds no > appeal. Travel does refresh me, but opportunities to do so are currently > limited. > > Any ideas how to break this slump? > > Rob McClure > Upper Sandusky, OH > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information