SS319 wrote:
Is there a card you can hold between your teeth and read the contents to the left side of your brain? No, but you can do things to bump your creativity.
There are exercises, such as those put up each week by DPS to take the assignment and find a creative way to express their subject. This week, for instance the subject is "hiking". Think it through, create an image in your mind, and only then grab your camera and go try and shoot that image that exists in your mind.
Take your pictures in your mind! Rather than going out and shooting a thousand frames and then seeing if you happened to get a good shot, create a shot in your mind, then go out without your camera and find that image, frame it from this viewpoint and that viewpoint, study the way the light falls on your subject at morning, in mid day, and evening, on sunny days, and cloudy days. I spent the 80s and 90s shooting the South Haven Light, morning evening, summer, winter, - do you know you have to change positions by over a half mile to set the sun behind the lighthouse between solstices?
Know everything about that subject? now go shoot a few shots, study what you got for a picture compared to the vision you created in your mind. Figure out what you must do to merge your vision into that photograph - take another few shots, review. Eventually, you will get that perfect shot, or, quite possibly, you may so enjoy the art of nature or the art of urbanity, or the art of technology so much that you lose the need to express it with film.
Slowly, over the course of a lifetime, you will gain that creativity upgrade you are seeking.
Photography is about seeing and using technology to show your fellow man the vision that has captured and held prisoner your mind.
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...and this post should be all that needs to be said on the topic....well done !
Vision, creativity, insipiration preceeds technology and, in many cases....does not proceed to technology as the fullfillment of the vision of the image can be done with what is in your hands right now....