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.
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Excerpted from Visual Poetry: A Creative Guide for Making Engaging Digital Photographs, and used with the permission of New Riders and Peachpit Press.
This article was last modified on January 5, 2023
This article was first published on June 24, 2009
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