1. Browse the web. Look at pictures in magazines and newspapers, and galleries on the Internet, and you'll find a wealth of ideas. Tried to show in shotaddict.com. Want more - go to Flickr and look through tons of creative shots. Another useful source is VFXY, it displays recent posts from various photoblogs.
2. Read "visual language". Visit art museums, galleries and exhibitions in photography exhibitions. Learn the history of art from antiquity to today and discover how very creative and has developed methods for the expression of light and color.
3. Watch movies. Another source of inspiration, because they are more than photos show you in 29.97 fps. A host of ideas for concepts, lighting, and messages, or pretty pictures and very clear.
4. Read books to learn new imaging techniques and then try to apply in your work.
5. Look at things through the eyes of creativity. Pick something, and shoot, just to see what that looks like: things around the house, in the refrigerator, and therefore subject does not matter that much, what matters is how you pull. Shoot, and shoot and shoot some more. Digital is cheap.
6. The configuration is the key. Think about what you do. Picture frame in your mind. Find interesting angles and light, go high, go low. The key is to shoot the subject in many different ways such as, in a different light, and try to make interesting images. Therefore, not only point and shoot, but consider the composition.
7. The practice of Step 20. If you do not have inspiration, you can take the camera, and on the street and start something about the incident. Each photographer has his own secret. Some recommended to take 100 photos in an hour. Others suggest that you should try to get 100 shots within 10 yards of where you are. Others play 20 steps. Out for a walk, walk 20 steps, stop, look around, and take a picture (try to make it interesting, an unusual angle, and inner, abstract, etc.), and walk twenty steps, and repetition. This point is to develop the eye, and learn to look deeper into your surroundings, staring at a large scale, and a document. This exercise forces you to try to see the mundane differently.
8. Planning a trip to the local botanical garden or zoo. Be sure to visit these places from time to time - there are many things to shoot there.
9. Pull in different conditions. Forum, for example, an exchange of fire in the morning, early afternoon or late at sunset, the available light will add more depth, and create interesting shadows and color changes for your convenience. Places in an attempt to portray in the fog - it will hide the dispersion of the elements of the background.
10. Look through postcards. If you want to shoot in the city where you live, or if you are planning a trip somewhere enthusiastic, you will find it useful to look through postcards. Often we walk past and something new, and never really noticed her potential. In addition, e-cards will give you ideas of what is the best way to shoot the subject.
11. Learn to "see" with the camera - another exercise for the development of the eye. If the camera has the lens of the camera, look through some time. Just look at the scene, and imagine how the camera will see. Contract and again the camera to your face and see if I was right. Keep trying until you can tell right away that the camera will see.
12. Self-criticism Shoot, shoot and shoot! But after that take tons of pictures, and must sort them ruthlessly. 10% of the pictures are worth a day is not bad results.
13. Enter contests on the Internet. It was a great inspiration to find interesting things to photograph. You have a subject, and they can do, it's easy to find interesting things to shoot. Competition in an attempt to shotaddict.com.
14. Join the community image and interest groups. It is, information from cheap and fun. You can publish your photos, and participate in the review and discussions in the forums. Can find very good and interesting things there!
15. Take a photo a day, and see your life in a whole new way. This is an excellent article from Photojojo. Remember that the camera you do not have with you is a camera that will capture any image. So try to have your camera in many cases as possible.
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