A community of ideas - #BCtogether Part II

As a follow-on from our #BCtogether post, we’re sharing more ideas being generated across our Blip community.  Thank you to everyone who’s commented with positive suggestions on our community posts, by email and on social media.  You can feel us all pulling together. 

Keep the ideas coming - add them to the comments below if you have some new ones or ones we’ve missed elsewhere.  If you’ve tried something already, you can share a link here too which will help inspire other people.  

And don’t forget to tag #BCtogether so we can all enjoy what you’re coming up with. You’re getting used to this now too: #OK2Share if you’re happy for your photos to appear on social media.

Take care.  Stay safe.  Keep on Blipping!

Richard and Bex

(Blippers: richard & WharfedaleBex) 



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BLIPBANK - IDEAS FROM BLIPPERS FOR BLIPPERS
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Every nook and cranny of your house, every significant artefact you possess (along with its accompanying story), every view from every window in all the lighting conditions of day and night, every hope you aspire to, every desire you cherish and every expression of love you cannot say to someone face to face.  

Invite your family and friends to join you for free.  Together, we can write the greatest story of human lockdown ever told  … and of our emergence from it!  

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It sounds like there’s a lot of tidying up of houses going on - so how about sharing your unusual finds while we’re all tidying our houses?

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Alphabet project - Create a project looking for letters of the alphabet - letters designed by nature, created by making household sculptures or simply finding letters on packaging and perhaps practising different techniques to photograph them. 

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Multi exposures - find out whether you can do in-camera multi-exposures or learn how to do it within some photography software.  

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Explore your camera modes.  Check out all those other buttons and options on your camera. If you’re not sure what they do, try browsing YouTube for someone giving a free tutorial on your camera.  Discover the creativity you can achieve in-camera.

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Share your day-to-day routines, hobbies, customs and traditions.

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Join in with the weekly challenges - they’re all being cleverly adapted for surviving self-isolation.  Find them here.

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Try a reinterpretation of a famous painting, being as creative and whimsical as possible using anything found around the house and garden.   #Remakeamaster

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For those of you who like a puzzle, try a Spot the Difference blip and let others try to find them.

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As an alternative self-portrait or a family portrait, use your imagination to come up with your own - masks, fancy dress, make-up.  We’re sure this will give rise to some laughter.

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Creative effects with objects placed between the camera and the subject - try shooting through transparent spheres, coloured filters, semi-transparent plastic, glass, etc. You don’t have to buy new things - try using objects you have in the house to photograph through.  Just see what happens!

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Try an exercise in observation.  Look for specific shapes, repeating patterns, colours or unusual textures either around the house or outside if you are able.


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Use natural light around the home and explore it in your photography - this can be particularly striking in black and white photography - look for shadows, reflections and shapes. 

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Feeling poetic?  April is National Poetry Writing Month. Why not try writing a poem linked to your photo of the day and tag it #NaPoWriMo2020.

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And a reminder of our original themes which you can find in this post:

- View from your window
- Still Life
- Macro Photography 
- Food Photography
- Family Pets
- Abstract
- Self Portraits
- Family Portraits
- Learn a new skill


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Photo with special thanks to Picturemull: One last idea (for now), don’t forget BlipCentral’s post - do you have happy, funny and uplifting stories linked to the coronavirus? Journal them and use the tag #CVstories.  This is a wonderful read from Picturemull exemplifying just that. Do take a look here!