Today, I have a fun exercise to share with you from the new book Shooting with Soul: 44 Photography Exercises Exploring Life, Beauty and Self-Expression - From film to Smartphones, capture images using cameras from yesterday and today. If the photography bug has bitten you, and you are looking for ways to change up and be creative with them, here is one of my faves. It gives you all sorts of ideas about shooting your shoes and clothes.
Click on these pages from Shooting with Soul to enlarge and read all the ideas, tips and techniques for shooting shoes and clothes.
I can personally attest to the fun of photographing shoes. And having my shoes photographed.
This photo was taken at Spellbound Mercantile by Rosemary Warren who had the table next to our Craftside table.
This was the original photo before I played around with the color in Photoshop. Both Rosemary and I loved how my crazy green and pink cowboy boots coordinated with the wild carpet.
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More about the Quarry book:
Shooting with Soul: 44 Photography Exercises Exploring Life, Beauty and Self-Expression - From film to Smartphones, capture images using cameras from yesterday and today
by Alessandra Cave
Shooting with Soul is glorious and beautiful book for anyone who loves to take pictures. Whether you are an aspirational photographer, artist, creative mom, or blogger, you will enjoy expanding your understanding of this medium by exploring 44 weeks of unique and reflective prompts and exercises aimed to demystify seemingly “techie” topics and enhance your creative self-expression. No matter what camera you own, an SLR, point and shoot, or even a camera phone, this book offers tips and methods for any device that snaps a photo.
New technology is making it easier to share photography, and interest in photos is being fueled by the popularity of photo-based apps and social networking sites such as Pinterest, Instagram, Hipstamatic, Flickr, and tumblr blogs. Sharing photos with friends and family has become as easy as pushing a button, however, finding the right photos to take and coming up with creative concepts for jaw-dropping photos remains something that needs to be explored and fostered.
Shooting with Soul teaches successful photography methods through an approach that is very much like journaling. By putting deep thought and feeling into the process, and into the exercises, which focus on personal exploration and autobiographical information, you will become able to create images that are infused with soul and that connect you with your viewers more deeply, whether they are friends and family, a professional art audience, or followers of a blog or website.
She currently lives in San Francisco and splits her time between commercial and editorial photography assignments, teaching workshops at creative retreats, and raising her amazing daughter, who is her biggest creative achievement to date.
Alessandra holds a Master in Arts degree from the Savannah College of Art and Design, but she considers herself completely self-taught when it comes to photography. A former contributor to Shutter Sisters, the widely acclaimed photo-blog celebrating women photographers, Alessandra is passionate about inspiring and empowering women to pick up the camera and follow their creative dreams. Her work has been featured extensively around the world-wide-web, as well as in national and international publications, such as:
The Beauty of Different, Nine to Five,
Artful Blogging,
Somerset Studio and
Mingle. You can follow her work and journey at
www.alessandracave.com.
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