Landscape and Nature Photography | Does Planning Stifle Creativity

The definition of Creativity is: the use of imagination or original ideas to create something! With that in mind I ask, does planning stifle your creativity in the landscape and with nature photography? Answers below please!

I always thought that planning was fundamental to achieving great landscape images, but is this really the case I ask myself? I often find that when I plan, the images are rarely the ones that stick in my memory, or please me long-term. Every-time without fail, I am most fulfilled in my photography when I find the unexpected and achieve the result there and then. But if I am working on something planned, my creativity becomes parked to one side and there is nothing more I can add when finaly realising the image. When I plan a landscape shoot properly, the only thing left to chance are the weather conditions and even then, a huge amount of consideration is given prior to the event to place the odds greatly in my favour. With so much of the shoot taken under my control in advance, it seems there is very little left to enjoy on the day. I'm not suggesting we never plan again because if we find something unique whereby the conditions don't suit on that day, then we have to go back. But it goes without saying that nothing beats a surprise. So with that in mind, I am changing my direction and doing less planning and enjoying more spontaneity! This way I don't find myself stuck indoors waiting for the light for a given place when I could be out finding the next surprise and flexing my creativity.

In this film I head to the Seton Coast sand dunes in search of literally anything that grabs my attention. The images were OK and I have done better but at last, I was out and freed from the jaws of a plan.

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