The other day, I scoured the web (ok, more like typed "photo assignment ideas" into Google and clicked on the first two thing thats popped up) and used some ideas off of random photo blogs/forums to begin brainstorming a list. These are just some starting points and we can make them as broad or narrow as we want. Anyway, let's use this post as a sort of writeboard for future ideas, eh?
- Nighttime; see www.darknessdarkness.com
- Nature
- Close-ups, detailed shots
- Portraits
- Self-portraits
- Black and white
- Live music
- Urban landscape
- Frozen action (done by increasing shutter speed to 1/150 or faster)
- Blurred shots (done by slowing down shutter speed to 1/30 or slower)
- Panning shots: moving object in focus, everything else blurred (done by following movement of individual)
- Animals
- Texture
- Composition
- Plastic camera (Holga); see http://community.livejournal.com/lomography/
- Other cameras in general: Polaroid
- Pinhole; see instructions on how to make a film one here: http://www.instructables.com/id/Juice-Box-Pinhole-Camera/
- Shooting with filters (could even be something as simple as breathing on the lens or holding up a pair of sunglasses)
- Reflections
- Long exposures
- Painting with light
- Shallow depth of field shots: wide aperture
- Deep depth of field shots: narrow aperture
- 3 times of day: the exact same composition, but taken in 3 different lighting situations
- Fill the frame: subject must be composed so that it intersects with at least 3 sides of the image frame
- Triptych: 3 photos shot with the intention of being displayed together
- Copy favorite famous photographer
- Double exposures
- Abandoned buildings/architecture
- Abstract
- Panoramic stitching; see http://www.thephotoforum.com/node/49
- Model photography (posed portraits)
- A Photo a day for 24 days
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P.S. This takes up way too much room on the page. If anyone knows how to create a cut, let me know...
I love a lot of those ideas. I think some of them have a lot of room for creativity. Some of them we could set a limitation on (such as Reflections: cannot use a mirror, Animals: cannot be domesticated, Nature: no flowers, etc.) the idea being to take away the obvious and easiest choices so we are forced to use our imagination and take better photos. I really like the self portrait idea because I don't think any of us would be inherently comfortable or good at that. Also filters, frozen action, triptych, and reflections all caught my eye.
there are a few really good ones here. by the way, the panorama stitching one is super fun but MEGA digital. and really hard to do with film. you could potentially waste a lot of film doing that one.
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