50 Things to Photograph For Beginners

Ever run out of things to pho­to­graph? Today I am giv­ing you 50 Things To Pho­to­graph For Begin­ners! I get it! It’s hard to come up with ideas of what to shoot. I tell my stu­dents in The Begin­ners Pho­tog­ra­phy Essen­tials Pro­gram all of the time that you should have your cam­era in your hand dai­ly, and if you are doing this…you quick­ly run out of things. And, if you know me, you know I LOVE a list. That is why I’ve put togeth­er my list of 50 Things To Pho­to­graph For Begin­ners. You no longer have to stress because I’ve put it all togeth­er for you.

I’ve bro­ken down the list of 50 Things To Pho­to­graph For Begin­ners into my top 5 favorites, plus forty-five more things for you to shoot.

Take your time with these shots. Remem­ber to use the rules of com­po­si­tion and shoot with inten­tion to make sure that you get the best pos­si­ble shot! Have fun, and don’t for­get to share your snaps in the Face­book Group!

50 Things to Photograph For Beginners

#1 Fruit

Fruit is an easy one as most of us have some lying around. Grab a piece of fruit or a whole bas­ket of fruit and start snap­ping. Fill the frame with your fruit, or use those lemons to prac­tice the rule of thirds. Remem­ber to shoot with pur­pose and cap­ture the very best image that you can.

# 2 Books

Most every­one has books lying around, and if you let your cre­ativ­i­ty flow, you can cre­ate some incred­i­ble pho­tos with them! Try shoot­ing the spines of the books all lined up on the shelf. Or what about get­ting a close­up and fill­ing the frame by shoot­ing the words on the page? Do you have books with beau­ti­ful cov­ers? Try cap­tur­ing the cov­ers of some of your beau­ti­ful books. The pos­si­bil­i­ties are endless.

#3 Eyes

One of my favorite exer­cis­es to do when I feel “out of things to pho­to­graph” is to push myself by focus­ing on one thing. Often I will pho­to­graph my fam­i­ly mem­ber’s eyes. I get as close in as pos­si­ble and fill the frame with only their eyes. You can focus on only one per­son, you can have two peo­ple lean togeth­er and get both sets of eyes, or you can focus on cre­at­ing a great image of just one eye. Again, think out­side of the box and push your­self a bit.

#4 Leading Lines

You have heard me say it. Lead­ing lines are every­where. Are you feel­ing a bit bored with your pho­tos? Then grab that cam­era and search for the lead­ing lines. Search your house, take a walk, look every­where and begin to see how many lines there are to shoot!

#5 Bokeh

Do you know those beau­ti­ful lit­tle cir­cles of light in the back­ground of a pho­to­graph? That is Bokeh and it’s one of my favorites. Who does­n’t love some beau­ti­ful bokeh? Why not work on per­fect­ing cap­tur­ing the beau­ti­ful blur in your pho­tos? Grab a per­son, or an object, open up that aper­ture and get to shoot­ing. What’s great about this one is that you can cap­ture bokeh with­out hav­ing a subject.

If my top 5 aren’t enough to keep you busy, check out the rest of my 50 Things To Pho­to­graph For Begin­ners here…

I hope this has giv­en you a start­ing point for those days where you are search­ing for some­thing to shoot. If you want a week­ly chal­lenge, then come Join the Learn Pho­tog­ra­phy with Dena for our Project 52 Chal­lenge, and if you’d like to reach your pho­tog­ra­phy goal even faster, check out the Begin­ners Pho­tog­ra­phy Essen­tials Pro­gram!