5 Photography Ideas when you find nothing interesting

We have crossed 50 days of Lockdown and there’s no sign of getting this chaotic situation in control. We may have tried everything to pass this quarantine period and stayed positive. But as a Homo sapiens species, we may lose control over things and find everything boring.

So, to ease the overall situation, here are some cool 5 photography ideas when you find nothing interesting. But before we jump into the main topic, here are:

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Alright, enough with the suggestion, let’s jump into photography ideas one by one.

Play with Shapes

Whether its a painter or a photographer or simply a creative artist, they just know how to play with shapes. You give a word and they will come up something meaningful. For example, if you are thinking of round objects and music, then a photographer might think of photographing a globe and round CD player and portray that the world is full of music.

Well, that was just an illustration of the metaphor that the artist understands. Likewise, you can try different things with the objects available in your own home. Let’s go back to the round objects, what else you can find round in your home, it may be a ball, cups, plates, CD players or round fruits. Let’s turn boring fruits into something more creative and fun.

Isn’t this amazing? There’s just a few fruits and strings and your balloon is ready. Try something with different objects.

Play with Words

Have you ever thought of photographing words? Whether it’s a random word you saw in streets, billboards, or in a book that your reading or words that you made out from the objects, it looks awesome if you capture them with some basic photography rules.

Here’s the word “Earth” made out of leaves. The Green leaves and the word “Earth”, it does make sense right?

Here’s another one with the word “Rice” made out of Rice itself.

That’s right, “You Got This”, now try something out of your imagination.

Patterns, Patterns, and Patterns

There’s amazing power in Patterns, it helps to soothe your mind and body. Likewise, it can draw the attention of the users and make simple objects into creative artwork. If you are tired of a regular photo shoot and find nothing interesting, then Patterns can be your thing.

Pick an object that is already available in your homes, just look around. It can be cookies, Pasta, beans biscuits, or marbles, or even stones works. Collect all your objects, make your camera ready, set the composition, and shoot from the above.

Here are patterns of Pasta, isn’t it lovely? Let’s take another example.

It’s just a collection of beans but it does look creative and artistic right?

I have always been fond of stones, so here are the patterns of stones. Now, it’s your turn. Find something to make a pattern and keep shooting.

Play with Chalks

Mixing chalk with other objects is one of the cool tricks or techniques of capturing artistic and creative photos. Whether you draw simple lines or make a whole drawing, you just have to mix the real-life objects and the output is simply outstanding.

Look at all the lemon squeeze into an imaginary bottle, it does look good right?

If you love to draw and have extra creativity, then you will surely love this one.

Does it look hard? Well, it’s just a pan and vegetables spread over it but it does look like a professional chef preparing some delicious food.

To create such shots, you need a blackboard and chalk. If you can’t find chalk near you, then you can use a marker or even a simple pen in your drawing and draw it in a white chart paper as well.

Play with your Food

Well, food is not only to fill your appetite, sometimes it’s more than that.

There’s no doubt that food photography has been popular worldwide and it is taken as one of the photography genres in today’s world. If you ever thought of going into food photography, then you have to be pretty unique. And these simple tricks can help you to beat your competitors and stay one ahead of them.

Just don’t take photos, find whatever near you, and include them in your photographs. For instance:

There are an egg and bread, and a piece of clothes and magazine paper. Well, you can find all these things in your home. Make your background clean and mix things up and look at the result.

Likewise, you can create space in your food photography.

Likewise, you can go back to play with chalk and experiment with new things with your food.

Conclusion

Photography is all about practicing and experimenting. Well, these were some simple still life photography ideas that you can try at home. We will come up with exciting articles in upcoming days, till then keep shooting.