Are you in a slump? Feel like your pictures are the same things all the time? Not inspired by anything lately? I have the solution: take a walk. A photo walk that is. Whether on your own or with other photog enthusiasts, a photo walk can really help you out of those camera slumps that happen to everyone.
What to look for or shoot while on a photo walk:
- Signs – street or shops
- Flowers and plants
- Benches, chairs, tables
- Unique objects
- Buildings
- Shadows – here is a great example
- Animals
- Metal of all sorts (gears, bolts, chains)
Also, while on your walk, try shooting your subject from different perspectives – up high, down low, from the side. Try tilting your camera a bit and shooting it that way (I have to be careful with tilt because many of mine turn out as tilts-gone-bad, I’m tilt challenged LOL).
Here are some shots from photo walks I’ve taken in the past couple of months. Two were by myself, one with another photographer and most recently with a group of photographers. I’ve enjoyed them all! I’m not showing these because they are incredible pictures, because they are not. I’m sharing them to show all the different things you can find when you look.
The following two are favorites from my recent I Heart Faces photo walk.
These next two are from a photo walk I took on my own around my in-laws property.
The next two are a photo walk I took by myself of my town’s main street while waiting for my boys to get out of Karate.
The two below are from my very first photo walk with a fellow photog-blog friend, Kristal, in downtown Greenville, SC.
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