Darren over at Digital Photography School has an interesting piece today about Using Visual Diaries as an aid to photographic inspiration
I was speaking with a semi-professional photographer recently about her work and how she kept it ‘fresh’ and she answered by pulling out a spiral bound art folio. At first I thought it was an album of her work but on opening it I discovered it was a scrapbook – filled with images that others had taken. This photographer had gotten in the habit of cutting out images that inspired her from newspapers, magazines, advertising brochures, postcards etc.
In todays online world you do not really need to do the tedious cut and glue job, it should be easy enough using downloads from blogs, Flickr, etc. Simply create a folder on your machine and view them when you are feeling stumped.
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This is what we had to do on our photography course. We were told to scour the big Sunday tabloids and go through the suplements.
Its mandatory for A level courses I believe.
Did it work?
I think so, it gives you an ideal on style as to what you like and what you don’t like so you can take inspiration.
There was certainly a fair amount of black and white in there as I remember!
Were a high percentage holga and lomo high saturation shots too? ;O)
No, that’s a quite recent thing!