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This article is from June 24, 2009, and is no longer current.

How to Take Inspired Photographs

This article is excerpted from Visual Poetry: A Creative Guide for Making Engaging Digital Photographs, which will be published by New Riders and Peachpit Press in August 2009.
A great photograph has the potential to transcend verbal and written language. But how do you create these photographs? It’s not the how that’s important, but the who and the what. Who you are as a person has a direct impact on what you capture as a photographer.
Whether you are an amateur or professional, this guide provides inspiration, simple techniques, and assignments to boost your creative process and improve your digital images using natural light and no additional gear.
Chris Orwig’s insights—to reduce and simplify, participate rather than critique, and capture a story—have made him an immensely popular workshop speaker and faculty member at the prestigious Brooks Institute. His engaging stories presented as lessons follow his classroom approach and highlight what students say is his contagious passion for life.
To download a PDF excerpt from Visual Poetry, click the image below.

Excerpted from Visual Poetry: A Creative Guide for Making Engaging Digital Photographs, and used with the permission of New Riders and Peachpit Press.
 

  • Anonymous says:

    Wow, this reading is amazing. It’s much more than just about photography, it’s about living an inspired life. Very, very good! Might need the book!

  • LaurenMarie says:

    Chris is an engaging author! He sure has a way of telling stories and making such a compelling point of living an inspired life. Immediately went to Amazon and put this book on my wish list!

    Creative Consultant and author of Creative Curio

  • Anonymous says:

    Mr. Orwig,

    Great stuff. Bravo!

    If I may pick a nit, the inclusion of the word “digital” in the title dilutes it. (I’d guess that it was added at the hand of your publisher, who wanted to make sure that the book appealed to all those who had recently purchased a digital camera. Just a guess.)

    An engaging photgraph is an engaging photograph. The physics of the capture device has very little to do with it. But I think you know all that.

    Keep up the good work – Greg Peterson
    https://GregPetersonPhoto.com

  • Anonymous says:

    You have a great spirit. Very inspirational. I teach college-level web design and these simple, keep-your-eye-on-the-ball lessons will definitely help me teach (and hopefully then help my students learn). Thank you.

  • Anonymous says:

    well put….. get those creative juices flowin again… thanxs….

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