Imagination at play...

                        Sometimes shooting random objects can be a plus. People always look for the obvious: sunsets, landscape of mountains and greenery; just basic landscape and scenery. 

                        A mistake most amateur photographers make is to put the object that they are capturing in the dead center of the image. 

                        Unfortunately that was a mistake I made this time. I did not angle the picture better. I could have made more use of it and do a lower angle and capture probably a bird that was nearby in flight with the splashing of the waves in the background, or simply the sea or placing of the lighting of the sun.  

                         At the moment I took this I did not think of all that, it was only after the fact that I left the area, well the island actually, because it was in Pigeon Point, Tobago. As I was viewing the pictures on the computer I realised the potential it could have had. I only wanted to capture the strange looking tree? It was so strange looking to me. It was also humungous. A friend of mine thought, at first that it was a very large coral. I found at first though, that it looked somewhat like a skeleton of a huge animal, such as an elephant? , but that is just our imaginations at play. That is exactly one of the effects you would want on an audience, which is to put a little bit of suspense into it. 

http://thenoblewanderer.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/random-photos-inanimate-objects/

The above website is an example of some of the creative ideas one could try to incorporate into their photography when it pertains to shooting random objects. The trick behind it is not to be random at all, but to put  some thought into what you are photographing. 

One example is the two coolers on the sand, seeming like they are on a picnic on the beach. While their owners are taking a swim, the photographer snapped the objects alone, as if they were life like and wanted to portray or get the feeling that the coolers were on a date. 

Some questions you should always ask before taking a picture as such would be :

- What is the primary theme or subject?

- What mood am I hoping to create?

- Does the background contribute to or take away from the subject matter?

- Where is the light coming from?

- What would make my photo different from all others?

By approaching every photo with a simple objective, you'll inevitably end up with better photos!!