{"id":52456,"date":"2017-06-09T22:40:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T05:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=52456"},"modified":"2017-06-09T22:40:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T05:40:12","slug":"10-creative-photography-assignments-to-re-inspire-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/09\/10-creative-photography-assignments-to-re-inspire-you\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Creative Photography Assignments to Re-Inspire You"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dear friend,<\/p>\n

Here are some fun photography assignments you can try out to re-inspire you:<\/p>\n

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  1. Listen to your favorite music album, and make a set of images: 1 photograph per song. For example, I’ll listen to “DAMN.” by Kendrick Lamar, and each of his songs inspires a blog post, or a single photo. So make a visual music, photography album of your favorite 12 photos to your favorite 12 songs. <\/li>\n
  2. Buy an old film medium-format<\/a> camera, FILM NOTES<\/a>, and buy 5 rolls of Kodak Portra 400, and 5 rolls of Kodak Tri-X 400. Shoot all the rolls, and edit down a set of images of your 5 favorite color photos, and your favorite 5 black and white photos. Of course, you can use whatever film you want. <\/li>\n
  3. On a Saturday morning, go to your favorite coffee shop, and bring your favorite 1 photography book<\/a>. Order a double espresso, and start inspiring yourself with images. Then, when the caffeine hits your blood stream, and you feel the inspiration flowing in your veins, go out and shoot for 2 hours. Choose your 1 favorite photo from the session, and upload it. <\/li>\n
  4. Only shoot selfies<\/a> for a week, and at the end of the week, choose your 7 favorite photos. Print them as small 4×6 images, and put them in your own photography journal for yourself. Don’t share them with anybody. <\/li>\n
  5. Imitate one photographer whose personality you hate for a week. <\/li>\n
  6. Try to make 1 perfect replica of a photograph you’ve seen that you like. Aka, recreate Henri Cartier-Bresson<\/a>‘s famous puddle jumping photo. <\/li>\n
  7. Only shoot JPEG<\/a> for a month (no RAW).<\/li>\n
  8. Only shoot with an iPad for a day. <\/li>\n
  9. On a Saturday, leave your phone at home, and shoot for an entire day without listening to music, sending emails, or checking social media. <\/li>\n
  10. Delete all your photos from Instagram, and re-upload your 10 favorite photos. Then don’t upload anything new for a week. Or to be more ballsy, delete your Instagram<\/a> and make a photo blog<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    For more inspiration, buy PHOTO JOURNAL<\/a> by HAPTIC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    BE STRONG,
    \nERIC<\/p>\n

    Photography 101 ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Dear friend, Here are some fun photography assignments you can try out to re-inspire you: Listen to your favorite music album, and make a set of images: 1 photograph per song. For example, I’ll listen to “DAMN.” by Kendrick Lamar, and each of his songs inspires a blog post, or a single photo. So make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/eric-kim-photography-seoul-0003562-2-1.jpg?fit=2000%2C1325&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}