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15 Photography Project Ideas You Should Try This Weekend

Chris Gampat
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05/16/2014
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Chris Gampat The Phoblographer Fujfilm 23mm f1.4 sample images (10 of 13)ISO 2501-30 sec at f - 1.4

Chris Gampat The Phoblographer Fujfilm 23mm f1.4 sample images (10 of 13)ISO 2501-30 sec at f - 1.4

The weekend is upon us! It’s time to go out and have fun with your camera. But if you have no direction, why not try some of these creative photo projects?

Ask a Complete Stranger for Their Photograph and Tell Them You’re Building Your Portfolio

Kodak Porta 400
Kodak Porta 400

Get the Horizon on a Landscape Completely Straight

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Learn to Backlight a Portrait

Pro Tip: We recommend that you communicate with the person that you're photographing first to get insight as to what they want. Some headshots are more corporate oriented while others are for comp cards, actor profiles, and dating websites.
Pro Tip: We recommend that you communicate with the person that you’re photographing first to get insight as to what they want. Some headshots are more corporate oriented while others are for comp cards, actor profiles, and dating websites.

Capture a Candid Scene on the Streets and Overcome Your Shyness

Chris Gampat The Phoblographer Zeiss 12mm f2.8 first impressions samples (6 of 8)ISO 4001-125 sec at f - 4.0

Compose a Scene By Color

Chris Gampat The Phoblographer Zeiss 50mm f2.8 touit extra photos (13 of 14)ISO 4001-320 sec at f - 2.8

Try Shooting in Auto and See How the Results Turn Out

Chris Gampat The Phoblographer Zeiss 12mm f2.8 final product photos (1 of 2)ISO 8001-40 sec

Manually White Balance While Spending an Entire Day Shooting Photos

Chris Gampat The Phoblographer Zeiss 12mm f2.8 first impressions samples (1 of 8)ISO 4001-125 sec at f - 4.0

Spend an Entire Day Shooting With a Single Focal Length

Felix Esser The Phoblographer SLR Magic 35mm T1.4 Review

Photograph The Process of Making a Meal By Getting in Close

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Shoot Street Photography Using the Zone Focusing System

Pro Tip: The zone focusing system requires using the depth of field scale on your lens. It tells you that at a given distance and when the lens is stopped down at a given aperture, a certain range of subject material will be in focus.
Pro Tip: The zone focusing system requires using the depth of field scale on your lens. It tells you that at a given distance and when the lens is stopped down at a given aperture, a certain range of subject material will be in focus.

Shoot Panoramic Scenes and Stitch Them Together

Chris Gampat The Phoblographer RhinoCam rooftop panorama (1 of 1)ISO 1001-500 sec

Try Only Shooting from the Hip

Chris Gampat The Phoblographer Fujifilm 23mm f1.4 more street photography (7 of 10)ISO 6401-640 sec at f - 5.6

Try Out Macro Photography

Chris Gampat The Phoblographer Zeiss 50mm f2.8 Touit Macro review samples (2 of 2)ISO 2001-60 sec at f - 22

Photograph a Subject with Direct Flash

Chris Gampat The Phoblographer Phase One IQ250 portrait with Natalie (5 of 5)ISO 1001-320 sec at f - 4.0

Use Second Curtain Flash and Try Light Painting

Chris Gampat The Phoblographer Lumopro LP-180 flash Rollerhoops images (2 of 2)ISO 2501-6 sec at f - 8.0

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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