5 Steps to Achieve Creative Photographs
CREATIVITY is an awesome word.
From a vague and amorphous beginning, results are produced and beautiful creative photographs will result.
Creativity is not a vague product of a mood ...
it can be made reliable and consistent.
Yes, some results will be more inspired than others ...
but the average will be high and successful! There is a definite thought process that can, if practiced, start a person not naturally gifted, on the road to creative expression.
This thought process, when consciously used can free the mind and send it reaching into higher spheres, start it producing.
It embodies five logical steps: 1) Assembling information.
2) Relating it consciously to the subject at hand.
3) Incubation process.
4) Genesis of idea.
5) Evaluating and shaping to usefulness.
What are new ideas? They are but unique variations of what somebody, somewhere has done before, seeing things in brand new relationships.
The creative mind endows old facts with new significance, places them in fresh juxtapositions.
You will sweep away the veils that obscure your horizons and limit you, recognize new relationships in well known facts and begin to produce usable ideas by practicing the definite steps that start creative thinking (if you have not already done so) when you ...
(1) Gather Information ...
reams and reams of it.
(Here is where curiosity comes in handy.
) There are two types of information you will require: general information and specific information.
General information concerns the world about you.
Know what is going on.
Be alive, be sensitive to and absorb interesting news and facts.
Specific information (harvested by conscious effort) pitches into every phase of the subject or field in which you wish to become creative.
Each aspect must be pursued as a subject in itself.
Specific information does not mean general facts that satisfy a passing curiosity, it penetrates to the core and searches for the individual, the unique.
If ideas are to spring from a new combination of general and specific information - you must have both.
2) Relate material to subject at hand.
When you collect general information and specific knowledge you have thrown the net that catches ideas but you must examine what you have caught and look for hidden facts.
Rub the bits of information together, fit pieces to your personal usefulness; this is the refining process.
Your mind must examine information in the light of what has gone before ...
what others have presented.
Relate the information you have collected to its bearing on life and all things that interest you.
3) Incubation process.
Shhhh ...
subconscious at work.
You have presented the facts to your subconscious, which along with other stored facts on the subject will be filing and shuffling them for orderly presentation at the propitious moment.
Let the facts remain dormant until necessity or inspiration of the moment demands that the subconscious bring forth its stored treasure in a new light.
4) Genesis of the idea.
The actual birth of the idea (or series of ideas) is the product of spontaneous combustion within the mind.
For, with enough general and specific information stored in the closet of our subconscious mind an outside idea or special problem (which would produce no reaction in an unsaturated mind) will fire your brain with searing ideas! You will not be able to help taking creative photographs! 5) Shaping the idea to practical usefulness requires the extra effort that separates the doer from the dreamer.
Here you must demand from your subconscious, not only that which it is ready to give, but more and more.
Draw forth each infinitesimal fact and applicable theory.
Discipline your conscious mind to grasp the idea and shape it into practical usefulness: make it a reality! Consider each field of posing: illustration, publicity, portraits, television, moving pictures, pictorial, fashion, photo-journalism and any other which incorporates the use of the camera.
Each has its fine delineation.
Each is a study in differences and each will generate further ideas for your work ...
that are right! This is not the end; it is the beginning of your investigation into what makes the body tick.
And what makes creative photographs click!
From a vague and amorphous beginning, results are produced and beautiful creative photographs will result.
Creativity is not a vague product of a mood ...
it can be made reliable and consistent.
Yes, some results will be more inspired than others ...
but the average will be high and successful! There is a definite thought process that can, if practiced, start a person not naturally gifted, on the road to creative expression.
This thought process, when consciously used can free the mind and send it reaching into higher spheres, start it producing.
It embodies five logical steps: 1) Assembling information.
2) Relating it consciously to the subject at hand.
3) Incubation process.
4) Genesis of idea.
5) Evaluating and shaping to usefulness.
What are new ideas? They are but unique variations of what somebody, somewhere has done before, seeing things in brand new relationships.
The creative mind endows old facts with new significance, places them in fresh juxtapositions.
You will sweep away the veils that obscure your horizons and limit you, recognize new relationships in well known facts and begin to produce usable ideas by practicing the definite steps that start creative thinking (if you have not already done so) when you ...
(1) Gather Information ...
reams and reams of it.
(Here is where curiosity comes in handy.
) There are two types of information you will require: general information and specific information.
General information concerns the world about you.
Know what is going on.
Be alive, be sensitive to and absorb interesting news and facts.
Specific information (harvested by conscious effort) pitches into every phase of the subject or field in which you wish to become creative.
Each aspect must be pursued as a subject in itself.
Specific information does not mean general facts that satisfy a passing curiosity, it penetrates to the core and searches for the individual, the unique.
If ideas are to spring from a new combination of general and specific information - you must have both.
2) Relate material to subject at hand.
When you collect general information and specific knowledge you have thrown the net that catches ideas but you must examine what you have caught and look for hidden facts.
Rub the bits of information together, fit pieces to your personal usefulness; this is the refining process.
Your mind must examine information in the light of what has gone before ...
what others have presented.
Relate the information you have collected to its bearing on life and all things that interest you.
3) Incubation process.
Shhhh ...
subconscious at work.
You have presented the facts to your subconscious, which along with other stored facts on the subject will be filing and shuffling them for orderly presentation at the propitious moment.
Let the facts remain dormant until necessity or inspiration of the moment demands that the subconscious bring forth its stored treasure in a new light.
4) Genesis of the idea.
The actual birth of the idea (or series of ideas) is the product of spontaneous combustion within the mind.
For, with enough general and specific information stored in the closet of our subconscious mind an outside idea or special problem (which would produce no reaction in an unsaturated mind) will fire your brain with searing ideas! You will not be able to help taking creative photographs! 5) Shaping the idea to practical usefulness requires the extra effort that separates the doer from the dreamer.
Here you must demand from your subconscious, not only that which it is ready to give, but more and more.
Draw forth each infinitesimal fact and applicable theory.
Discipline your conscious mind to grasp the idea and shape it into practical usefulness: make it a reality! Consider each field of posing: illustration, publicity, portraits, television, moving pictures, pictorial, fashion, photo-journalism and any other which incorporates the use of the camera.
Each has its fine delineation.
Each is a study in differences and each will generate further ideas for your work ...
that are right! This is not the end; it is the beginning of your investigation into what makes the body tick.
And what makes creative photographs click!
