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 !

 

[SunriseAvenue]

I agree that focusing on "places" is meaningless, everything that's new might have something interesting. Besides, exploring the area around you is always a good idea even if you never go to the same place twice. Visiting local events is another way to go, I've made a bunch of smartshow 3d videos with pictures from local festivals or art galleries I wouldn't have visited had it not been a wish to photograph something new.

 

[21limited]

My “Places to photograph” search took me here.

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My images are represented in quite a few places, but the thing is, many of the places shown are places only I and my wife go, and no one could find them without hiring one of us. Real Ontario bushland with no formal trails, just our dog walk paths, that we can see but many others can’t. Others of bears are 10 years old before the spring bear hunt was reinstituted and all the bears in that location were killed. My 75th anniversary images are on there, and you’re not going to be able to get into my step son's house for a photo op, or wander his front field looking for wild flowers. IN fact if they’d contacted me to I could have done exponentially better job on many of their images. My step son’t house has frontage on the trans -Canada trail and there are many opportunies walking the trail.

My guess is, it’s some kind of AI based solely on key words and GPS coordinates. I have much better images from most of my local locations, but, I don’t always have my in camera GPS turned on.

I looked at Niagara Falls, and I didn’t have an issue with their chocies, and I doubt I have better iamges than those poste, so depending on the popularity of the place, your mileage will vary. But, honestly, visiting North Bay, Ontario, Powassan, Calendar, or ALgqonquin Park, or Whitney Ontario, send me a message, I’ll set you up.

As far as I can tell, the AI on this site compiles it’s list at the time you search. Many of the categories are all one photographer, and it shows zero images when you search, then populates the page with what it's search finds, on flickr, under photographs listed as public, with GPC co-ordinates. I can’t imagine that the AI searches aren't costing him. Too bad it’s so infantile.

By the way, I don’t know why I’m 21limited on this site. In 2012 the 21 limited was one of my favorutie lenses (but hasn’t been since) and I usually post uner my real name, “normhead”. None of the images posted are really worth looking at, but if you wonder why you can’t find me, that’s it.

Even more interesting to me, two of the four example images on the main North Bay page, Duchesney Falls are mine, but neither is included on actual page.

One has to wonder how much AI power it would take to understand what good image is, I can tell you my images are there, but I can also tell you, none of the images I would have slected are there. ANd I can tealso tell you Ihave flickr album of Algonquin images, almost 400 images from the park, with some excellent image, none of which are on that page.

So, I can tell you my images are there, but, very few of them are images I would have subnitted if asked. Most are not my best work. You gotta love AI, I guess it’s a cheap way to do it, but, Icant recommend the results.

 

[21limited]

Where I go, it’s one of the few places in the world you can get an image of a Pine Martin, in the wild. Peope drive 1000 miles to come here. It comes down to, do you want an image like this you took yourself… or don’t you? If the answer is “no” you don’t want it fine, but realize many people are different, and spend a lot of money on the gear you need to get this image.
2020-top-10-Camron-Rd-Pine-Martin by Norm Head, on Flickr

There are tons of places like this, where you might like to try your own take on well photographed venue.

My cousinn was relatively well known wedding photographer. He loved going to weddings and shot hundreds of them. I don’t like getting dressed up, I like seeing new places in the bush in technical clothing and Ts in places that are hard to get to. We both enjoy what we do. He has a lot of wedding photos. I have lot of waterfalls, sunsets, wild life, and camp scenes. One of us works locally, one of us does a fair bit of travelling. I would never choose to say one of us is wrong. We’re both happy with what we do. He does what he does, I do what i do, we both do what the other does on occasion, but it’s not our passion. There’s lots of room for everyone.

 

[Ihatemymoney]

I do photo tours out of Winnemucca NV Ghosts towns Old and in operation gold mines desert abandon wind mills, snakes at times

PM me if your interested

 

[407370]

As others have pointed out anywhere is interesting to an imagination.
Vast majority of my pics are taken either in my garden or my shed, Try going to the same place twice with different lens or different method or try something entirely different like intentional camera movement.
Try using your phone only.
Have a go at panorama with multiple images to be stitched together.
The possibilities are endless.

CHEERS
JBO