Photographer's block

[Out to Lunch]

Mothball the camera until you feel the urge to take it out again.

 

[laurentb]

Something that works for me is what is suggested in "Finely focused" (really worth a few dollars!): "prime the pump"


Most of the time, when walking looking for photographs, I'll try to make an image in the first 5 or 10 minutes, whatever is in front of me. Most of the time it's not the best shot, but it gets me going.

 

[squirrel$$$bandit]

When writers get writer's block, sometimes they are advised to write about having writer's block. I wonder: Might it be possible to photograph about having photographer's block?

This is not advice I would give another writer! (That's my trade.) But I've had photographer's block for the better part of a year—I don't even own a camera right now—and I'm thinking I'll eventually do what works for my writing, which is to give myself prompts...limiting exercises. Force myself to do something I wouldn't ordinarily do. You know, 25 pictures with only one thing in them. 25 pictures of the backs of things. 25 pictures taken while lying on the ground. 25 pictures with red in them. etc etc

I'm not sure of any source for these, though I could probably make some more up. I wish there were an Oblique Strategies for photographers. Maybe Oblique Strategies itself would work for photographers, actually.

 

[willie_901]

Mothball the camera until you feel the urge to take it out again.

Agreed.













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