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21. September 2017

Make Extraordinary out of Ordinary

No matter where we live, it will sometimes be boring. How can you make better photos? Not by going to extraordinary places, and photographing extraordinary people and things. Rather, embracing the ordinary place you live, and making extraordinary photos of ordinary things.

No matter where we live, we will eventually normalize to wherever we live. We can live in the most exciting city, but it will become “boring” and “ordinary” after a while. The photographer’s most important asset is their eyes. As a photographer, your creativity is about what you decide to add in a frame, and what you decide to leave out of the frame.

So the way to stay creative for your entire life is to look at everything in your life (which is ordinary, and transform it into something extraordinary).

Familiar things, new insights

How can you make more extraordinary photos of ordinary things? Some ideas juxtapose that ordinary thing against something that is interesting

  1. Use an un-usual form of lighting on that ordinary subject-matter (whether using an external flash, by shooting at different times of the day, or by using different exposures)
  2. Photograph your subject from an unusual perspective (really high, really low, from some other obscure angle)

The problem that many of us make in photography is that we are always seeking extraordinary subject-matter. We travel to exotic places, we want to photograph exotic people, or exotic moments.

But once again, street photography is about capturing beauty in the mundane. The beauty of ordinary, everyday life.

And that is our job as photographers— take the ordinary, and make it extraordinary.

I also feel the best compliment we can get in our photography is this: when someone looks at your photo and says, “Wow — I walk by that everyday. But I have never seen it like the way you do.”

Transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.

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Ich bin Shia, 33, Studentin und seit 2011 schreibe ich auf Shias Welt über Beauty, Fashion und Lifestyle Themen. Ich lebe in Düsseldorf mit Katz’, Hund und meinem Freund. Ich falle überall, dank meiner rosa Haare auf. Ich reise viel und gerne nach Asien und mein Herz habe ich in Seoul gelassen.

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