Lucy And The Lens

Category: Photographic List Posts

  • 5 Photography Blogs Every Photographer Must Read

    DIY Photography shows you have to do a variety of photography related projects. At the moment its highlighting people who are finding clever ways to photograph in Isolation.

    Digital Photography School

    This is the blog where you can guarantee to find anything you need. There’s Camera and photography product reviews, tutorials and tips for a variety of things, challenges that you can take part in. Just be sure to read this blog for any kind of Advice.

    Picture Correct is my go-to blog for lighting and editing tips and tricks. My favourite posts are related to lighting tutorials. I’ve learned so much more about lighting from watching people try it over video.

    Here is the home of the Sunday Shutter which highlights the best photos there have seen that week which I think is really cool and good to see what other people have photographed in the last week.

    For me this is another one like digital photography school that has been around for so many years, it’s hard not to find a variety of useful things on here.

    Please be sure to check these out and if you enjoyed this posted stay tuned for more.

  • 5 Tips to Name your Photography business

    1. Brainstorm some ideas by creating a mind map and asking other people for inspiration.
    2. Check no-one else is using the name you want.
    3. Do you have a unique first name or surname. If you do try and include it into the business name.
    4. Make a list of photographic terms and see if one jumps out at you.
    5. Don’t Do what everybody else is doing. Try to make your name stand out.

    When choosing my name Lucy and the Lens step 1 and 4 were the ones I used the most then I got a logo and cartoon me designed by @emiliaclarecreates check out her Instagram.

  • 10 Ideas To Stay Inspired With Little Time

    The first challenge is to write a list post and I thought seen as I’ve been busy lately  I’d make a list of 10 ideas to unleash the creative photographer within you. This list is typically what I might do on a week when I have very little time to get out and about and photograph. This keeps me focused on getting out and about and not giving up because my time is limited. So here is just a few ideas of things i like to do to get inspired to photograph:

    1. Find a local museum, familiarise yourself with the exhibits and challenge yourself to photograph every new exhibit. Sometimes I spend one day a week just wandering round the Harris Museum in Preston with my camera seeing what i can discover.
    2. Create a series about something your passionate about. For me this could be reading, reinterpretting movie scenes through photographs, portraiture or fencing.
    3. Turn yourself into an alter ego. If time contraints mean you don’t have a model this week why not take pictures of yourself in your normal state and showing different aspects of your personality. You can also create an entirely new persona of yourself by wearing something different or doing something that isnt usual for you.
    4. Create a campaign about something just for yourself. I haven’t done this yet but i’m hoping to work on a few different ones but i’m not going to give anything away, just yet.
    5. Get on a train and go somewhere alone and document your day.
    6. Spend your day in a familiar place and find new ways of looking at it.
    7. Go for a walk to focus your mind. I find that going for walks really helps me to clear my head and form ideas for new projects.
    8. Only use one lense. This helps to improve your composition as your really have to think about making use of what you’ve got. Here is a more indepth explanation of why you should do this challenge: One Lense Challenge.
    9. Add a signature motif to one of your images during a day shoot. I’ve seen this done many times by various photographers. Usually something simple like A Red Umbrella or a Yellow Coat.
    10. Invest your personality into your images.

    I hope you enjoyed this post. Here is a few photos taken during these challenges: