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My wife and business partner Arduina’s enthusiasm is intoxicating.<\/p>\n
So I asked her to share\u00a0a little of it\u00a0with you.<\/p>\n
Here are her 9 Ways To Bring More Joy To Your Photography.<\/p>\n
1. PLAY!<\/p>\n
Give yourself the gift of playtime. Try new things without judgement. Make a portrait of your neighbor, or your neighbors peacocks. Make a self portrait holding your most prized possession. Arrange a still life from your junk drawer. Try abstraction. Go underwater or book yourself a hot air ballon and try areal photography. Ask a friend to drive you around. My husband will sweetly slow the car down to help me make an image of a fox in a field or a goat on the roof of a shed. Try motion blur, long exposers\u00a0 <\/span>or double exposures. Shoot with different lenses and cameras; try a 400mm lens with a doubler or a macro; play with plastic lenses or a Holga; or use a scanner as your camera. In order to get the most joy from playtime all you have to do you have to make time for play. I think of it as a healthy form of self care – if you can spend an hour on a treadmill you can spare a few minutes to photograph your favorite tree.<\/p>\n 2. Experience A Different Time Of Day<\/p>\n Be amazed by magic light! Drag your sleepy head out of bed and watch as the dawn moves across your windows or play in the dappled light under a canopy of trees at mid day.<\/p>\n 3. See What Your Eyes Can\u2019t<\/p>\n Get yourself\u00a0 <\/span>a tripod and shoot after dark. You could even use an intervalometer\u00a0 <\/span>to make a time-lapse of yourself while you sleep and you may solve the mystery of who has been stealing the covers.<\/p>\n 4. Explore<\/p>\n Wander about and\u00a0 <\/span>catch yourself in a smile. Notice what you notice and make a record of what resonates. Photographer Keith Carter says, \u201cTime spent in reconnoissance is never time wasted.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>Time enjoyed is never wasted, whether you make a picture right then or return later with a wagon full of birdcages and clocks.<\/p>\n 5. Be Inspired By Your Favorite Song Writer Or Poet<\/p>\n Pay homage to the song that got you through a bad break up or spend some time with\u00a0 <\/span>Mary Oliver as she tirelessly guides you through the natural world.<\/p>\n 6. Put Yourself In Someone Else\u2019s Shoes<\/p>\n Try on a different point of view. Find happiness in shooting a scene while lying on your belly or standing on your tippy toes with your arms stretched up overhead. Any advice involving shoes makes me happy \u2026<\/p>\n 7. Lighten Up<\/p>\n Ditch your inner critic. Just because Edward Weston made an Iconic picture of a bell pepper doesn\u2019t mean that you can never photograph a pepper. Just make pictures. In fact the one most people think of is entitled \u201cPepper No. 30\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>but he must have had an amazing time playing with creepy pepper #14.<\/p>\n 8. Learn To Composite<\/p>\n So what if that cloud was in San Francisco and that ocean is in Maine ? Perhaps they would like to meet in a photograph?<\/p>\n 9. Make A Print<\/p>\n Hold the joy you have experienced in your hands! Put it on your wall. Glue it in a book. Or mail it to your mother-in-law to thank her for loving you. I make my prints on an Epson printer \u2013 and I am deeply in love with that part of my process \u2013\u00a0but a print in any form (Cibachrome, cyanotype, or collodion) anything with three-dimensions is joyful to me!<\/p>\n View\u00a0Ardie’s photographs\u00a0on Instagram.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Visit Ardie\u2019s website.<\/a><\/strong><\/span> My wife and business partner Arduina’s enthusiasm is intoxicating. So I asked her to share\u00a0a little of it\u00a0with you. Here are her 9 Ways To Bring More Joy To Your Photography. 1. PLAY! Give yourself the gift of playtime. Try new things without judgement. Make…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[527],"tags":[4069,6,4071,80],"post_folder":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"Screen](\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-30-at-11.42.49-AM.jpg\")
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