Sarah Wilkerson has been at it again and challenging us to stretch our creativity! We just concluded another Creativity Exercise at Clickin Moms photography forum.
creativity exercise | shooting indirectly
Many surfaces have reflective qualities — glass, metal, water, even highly polished wood. Take a walk around your house/neighborhood/city/etc, and pay attention to reflective surfaces. When you set out to find reflections, you might be surprised at the variety of surfaces capable of catching and reflecting the light. Also pay attention to the way that the shape (and even texture) of the surface changes the way subjects/scenes appear (as opposed to when they are viewed directly). How can you use the light catching / image distorting features of reflective surfaces creatively? Most importantly, pay attention to WHAT appears in the reflection. Is there a subject there you might not have noticed before? As you change your perspective (move left/right/higher/lower), what new subjects or scenes appear within the reflection?
This week, you may not shoot your subject directly. You must shoot a surface that reflects your subject or scene, but you may NOT use an actual mirror (too easy!!). Remember that the idea is to shoot the subject indirectly – not merely to capture a random reflection somewhere in your image.
And here are some of the faves submitted for the exercise:
Holly Thompson:
Kara Roberts:
Crissie Fields:
Megan:
Mindy:
Angie Allen:
Amanda Norton:
Rashelle Cuperus:
Awesome job, ladies!!! Can’t wait to see what you do next time!
what creative photos! my favorite is the oil and the pan. WOW i would've never thought of that!!
Amaaaazing!! Beautiful work!! Love to see all the thinking outside the box!!
Beautiful work, well done everyone!
OK, I'm going to get my silverware out for this week's challenge!!
These were all fabulous! Really enjoying all the creativity.
I'm loving these creativity exercises and seeing so much wonderful talent featured! I'm beyond honored to have my images chosen for the blog today. Thank you, Sarah!!! My fave is the tuba… LOVE the vibrancy. Great work, Chrissie! And congrats to all the ladies, you are all awesome!
Yay – so blessed to see the ones of my daughter selected (note to self: clean those waterspots off the bath faucet!). All of these were wonderful, the bubble one and the hot air balloons though are amazing!
These are awesome! Some creative ladies here!
Great job ladies!!! This was a fun challenge and I really enjoyed all of the creativity from everyone. I'm thrilled that one of mine was chosen for the blog! This was my first picture post other than RYC101. How exciting. Love the one with the hot air balloon! Great job to all of you!
These are amazing!
Hey Amanda, congratulations on making the blog!
What great work ladies!
All I can say is WOW.