Something inside you desires to get out. It can be a story or an image or an idea. many people have these things inside them but for many people, nothing more ever comes of it. For some though, creating something is necessary for daily life.
Intentional Camera Movement Tower.
What is the thing that sparks the beginning of creating something, What is the inspiration? Do you see the completed image in your head and then you set out to make it? is it just the beginning of an idea and the experimenting with that idea results in creating something? Or is it just the process and the routine of practice that produces your work?
Down the street.
For myself, there is a mixture of things as I change as a photographer. A glimpse of a finished image or the change in approach or new technique that makes me want to see in a different way. I never intend to visualize an image to completion in my head. I want to be able to enjoy the surprise at the time of editing when I get a satisfactory result. I spend time thinking through the process of what I need to do to get something that would look like what I have envisioned.
Icy Tower
Being open to any of the inspiration that may come along is something that should be practiced. You never know what will fill you with inspiration to do something. It could be a combination of colours or a texture that you see. Today I spent some time working on a new to me technique of Intentional Camera Movement. The idea is to create an image that is a surrealistic representation of the scene before you. When thinking through the process of how to make these images I found myself interested in contrast of details and strong colour representation instead of the standard capture of the scene. There is a certain reduction of the scene to those simple elements yet you still know what you are looking at. With the reduction of details there is still a lot to look at.
From the crosswalk
While this is the first attempts at this style of image, I have found some information from the experiment that will help the success of more images in the future. In this case a certain amount of success will serve as Inspiration in the future to create more work. Inspiration based on this experience, seems fluid and ever changing. All you need is to be open to it. Now go out and create!
+15 and atrium.