The trade shows are over, you’ve got your marketing ready for spring, and suddenly you notice you have a little more time on your hands than normal.

Welcome to March.

Sure, you could use this opportunity to get your taxes done early (yuck) or clean out the back closet at the studio (double-yuck). But why not take the next few weeks and play with photography a bit. After all, wasn’t the “fun” of photography at least part of the reason you bought your first camera?

Below are 8 interesting ways to produce an image you would never do in your normal business. Click the links, and see if any of them look like a fun way to waste a couple of afternoons before spring arrives. Don’t worry about showing anyone your results. And who knows – you might even pick up a new and unique product to wow your clients!

1. Stitch 3+ photos into a panorama and print it, or stitch a dozen images together create a 360-degree panoramic image. Here are some examples.

2. Create a long-exposure image (here are some examples).

3. Go back into the darkroom and print from film (my friend Pat does B&W film every winter as a hobby and loves it).

4. Go “old-school” and create an image using a historical process: daguerreotype, ambrotype or tintype. (what’s the difference?)

5. Create a tilt-shift image. See examples.

6. Create an image of tiled smaller images.

7. Create an HDR image. See some examples.

8. Use your camera’s video feature to make some YouTube videos for your website.

 

Tags: art, motivation

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