Interesting Places To Take Photos

[debm5469]

I'm interested in finding some new places to shoot some photos. Depending on the light and the weather my own home and neighborhood are consistent go to's as are local nurseries, parks, hiking trails and museums. Where do you go to practice? Public spaces such as libraries, restaurants, shopping plazas sound interesting but I was curious to hear of any other off the wall places where I might be able to get some practice in.

 

[webestang64]

Other than what you mentioned I have the Gateway Arch and river front here in St. Lou. Shooting "urban decay" is big here in St. Lou. I have several customers at the lab that shoot in abandoned buildings.

 

[smoke665]

Do a Google search "photo locations near me" you'll get a lot of hits

 

[ACHILLEAS]

I consider interesting anywhere I havent been and anything I havent done. It sounds vague but there are endless possibilities. Also try cheap macro with extension tubes.

 

[Golem]

I'm interested in finding some new places to shoot some photos. Depending on the light and the weather my own home and neighborhood are consistent go to's as are local nurseries, parks, hiking trails and museums. Where do you go to practice? Public spaces such as libraries, restaurants, shopping plazas sound interesting but I was curious to hear of any other off the wall places where I might be able to get some practice in.

If you want to "get some practice in" just delete all your thinking about interesting places. "Place" is meaningless. I happen to do the great majority of my work in a very small radius near home, in an ordinary, small, defunct but not run down, former industrial city in the Northeast.

Here I find people, things, and light. Is there something more than those three ingredients that would really be necessary to make photographs ?

 

[petrochemist]

As @Golem points out it doesn't have to be interesting places. Interesting events always work, and you can create a load of those yourself it you can't find events laid on...
Then you can try familiar locations with a different approach - long exposures, different times/weather, close up details.

 

[Golem]

...... you can try familiar locations with a different approach - long exposures, different times/weather, close up details.

In my pix posted just above your post, the last pic, at the breakfast table, is a fisheye pic ... altho one might need look carefully to realize that. One way to explore familiar places is to get a fisheye. Most folks wont use one very long before theyre done with it, so get a used one. KEH usually has a few.

I strongly recommend avoiding the circular image type. Get the corner to corner coverage type. And dont feel obliged to keep the whole frame simply becuz its a fisheye. The breakfast image is cropped. And occasionally you may need to crop to get your own feet out of the edge of the frame !#!!%!!

I kinda feel "dirty" suggesting fresh gear as a source of motivation or inspiration, but often enough it does work, at least to a degree. It may not lead to amazing masterpiece photos, but first things first ... and first one needs to just simply get a move on !

FWIW, Im not one who took only brief interest in fisheyes. I have four of them across all three popular format sizes. Too many folks who try out fisheyes fail to keep at it long enough to get beyond the superficial novelty aspect. Real motivation comes from breaking through the superficial and using the fisheye as a discipline, really working hard to get beyond the "cheap trick" novel cliche stage. I must admit Im still working on that !