A list of photo ideas
Thursday, September 17th, 2026 at 07:22pm
For a long time I have had a list of photo ideas written down in a notebook. Many of them have come and gone as fads/trends on social media and as they can also mostly be done at home with minimal equipment a number of the peaked during lockdowns.
I have done a couple of them before, so those I want to revisit, and the others I have wanted to try for the first time.
The list:
- sound triggered flash (balloons, party poppers, etc)
- water drop collisions
- objects (fruit, toys) into water
- paint/dye into water
- smoke
- soap bubbles
- oil and water (lit underneath)
- polarizer sheet and glass/plastic objects
- clear object on tablet
- glass orb/lensball
- paint on speaker
- macro with household objects (forks/spoons, utensils, pencils, folded paper, etc)
- light painting with pixelstick
- fire/poi spinning
- flat lay (objects)
- flat lay backlit (sliced fruit)
- suspended objects (cut up fruit)
- no lens refraction
- strobist light box
- water droplets
(if an item is a link, then I have a followup where I have done that one)
At the camera club we have a portfolio group and I decided to do a portfolio this year, but what would the subject or theme of my portfolio be? My ambitious idea is make this list the theme, work though as many items as a possible showing the result and behind the scenes. My fallback idea is to take one item from the list and focus on that…
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