Umbrellas on a sunny day.
The other day I was out photographing some assignment work and noticed the umbrellas that are shown above out of the corner of my eye. I hadn’t set out to photograph this kind of subject, but they grabbed my attention enough to make me want to photograph them.
Photographs and photographic subjects are all around us. All you need to do to find great subjects is keep your eyes open. As you walk down the street, wait for a bus, kill time before work or line up for a movie, there will be plenty of photographs in your immediate vicinity just waiting to be taken. Here’s another example of something I randomly saw recently.
Photographs like this don’t need a lot of preparation. As long as you have a camera of some kind, you’re good to go. It’s often not possible or desirable to carry a big heavy DSLR with you at all times, but a pocket-sized point and shoot or a phone camera works just fine. You’re (probably) not going to be printed these at any large size, so image quality is not such an issue. Any digital camera available today is more than capable of being used for these grab shots. It’s more a case of what you see rather than what you have.
Keep your eyes open as you go about your day. There are thousands of photo opportunities that pass by you each and every day. Why not tune into them sometime?
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