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
  • forks/spoons shapes/shadows
  • 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

(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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