This crazy list of photography themes is useful for those who feel like there is nothing to photograph. Photography themes are a great way to organize your photography. Often students say their town is boring or there is nothing to shoot. There is ALWAYS something to photograph you just have to get creative. This list should get the creative juices flowing.
- Portrait Photography Themes
- Photography Series Ideas
- Creative Photography Ideas
- Photography Themes For Projects
Just take a look at this list of themes and items that are interesting to shoot. It should get you started.
If you're wondering why using themes in photography is useful read this.
Portrait Photography Themes
- Abandoned Buildings
- Abstracts
- Amphibian
- Anger
- Arches
- Architecture
- Autumn
- Back Alleys
- Bad Weather
- Bald Heads
- Balloons
- Bare Feet
- Bark
- Barns
- Bees
- Bicycle Parts
- Bikes
- Birds
- Black and White
- Blimps
- Blue
- Bolts
- Bones
- Books
- Bottles
- Bridge
- Bridges
- Broken Glass
- Bronze
- Brown
- Bump
- Butterflies
- Butterflies / Bees
- Campsites
- Car Details
- Catching People Unaware
- Cats
- Celebrations
- Choice
- Church Windows
- Churches
- Circles
- City Hall
- City Skylines
- City Street Scenes
- Close-up
- Clouds
- Cold
- Colours
- Columns
- Computers
- Contrasts
- Covered Bridges
- Critters
- Culture
- Curves
- Custom Cars
- Dancers
- Decorations
- Demonic
- Demonstrations
- Devilish
- Digital
- Disappearing Professions
- Disappearing Technologies
- Dishes
- Documentary
- Dogs
- Dominating
- Doom and gloom
- Door Knobs
- Doors
- Dots / Dashes / Diagonals
- Drawers
- Duplicates
- Easter
- Eggs
- Elation
- Embrace
- Emergency Situations
- Enthusiasm / eager
- Environmental Trash
- Events
- Eye Glasses
- Eyes
- Farm Animals
- Feathers
- Feet
- Feisty
- Feline
- Femininity
- Fences
- Fetes & Festivals
- Fetish
- Fire
- Fire Engines
- Fireworks / Fire
- Fish
- Flags
- Flower Petals
- Flowers
- Food
- Forks
- Forms in Nature
- Fountains
- Framed
- Freeways
- Frozen
- Fruit
- Games
- Gardens
- Gates
- Gears
- Geriatric (older folks)
- Glamour
- Glass
- Gold
- Graceful
- Graffiti
- Green
- H Hands
- Halloween
- Hallways
- Handles
- Hands
- Happiness
- Harbours
- Harvest
- Hats
- Hidden
- History
- Holiday
- Horizon
- Horses
- Hot Rod Cars
- Hunger
- Ice
- Inclines
- Indian Ruins
- Indigenous Things Or People
- Industrial
- Insects
- Inspiration
- Iridescent
- Iron
- Isolated Objects
- Jails
- Jets
- Jewelry
- Jobs
- Joints
- Journalistic
- Joy
- Jugs
- Junk Yards
- Keys
- Kids
- Kin or Families
- Kite
- Kites
- Knives
- Landscapes
- Lazy
- Learning
- Leaves
- Legs
- Letters
- Light
- Lightning
- Lights
- Locks
- Machine Parts
- Macro
- Marine life
- Masculinity
- Masks
- Mass flowers
- Mirrors
- Money
- Monuments
- Mood
- Movie Theater Marquees
- Muse
- Mushrooms
- Neon Signs
- Night
- Night lights
- Nighttime
- Nonsense
- Noodles
- Numbers
- Nut
- Nuts
- Objects
- Odd Couples
- Old Everything
- Olympic
- Opposites
- Opulent
- Orange
- Pairs
- Paper Abstracts
- Parallel Lines
- Patterns
- Peacocks
- Peeling Paint
- People
- People At Work
- People Walking Dogs
- Peppers
- Perspective
- Pets
- Pictures in Pictures
- Piles of Things
- Pink / Purple
- Polished
- Porches
- Quad
- Quarters
- Queens
- Railroad Cars
- Railroad Tracks
- Raindrops
- Rainbows
- Red
- Red Barns
- Reenactments
- Reflection
- Reflections in Glass
- Reflections in Water
- Religious
- Roads-capes
- Rocks
- Round Things
- Rows of Things
- Rust
- Rustic
- Sand dunes
- Sand Patterns
- Sea Shells
- Seascapes
- Seasons
- Self
- Shadows
- Shoes
- Signs
- Silhouettes
- Skulls
- Sky
- Sleeping Animals
- Sleeping People
- Small Furry Animals
- Smiles
- Smoke Stacks
- Snow
- Soft Curves
- Sorrow
- Spanish Moss
- Speed
- Spoons
- Sports
- Spring
- Squirrel
- Stacks
- Stairs
- Statues
- Steam Railroads
- Still life
- Strange Signs
- String Instruments
- Structures
- Summer
- Sunrise
- Sunset
- Superstitions
- Sweets
- Swings
- Tattoos
- Teddy Bear / toy
- Textures
- The Local School
- The spot (X marks it, you know)
- Toads
- Tombstones
- Tools
- Tools of the Trade
- Transport
- Tree Knots
- Trees
- Ugly Everything
- Umbrella
- Umbrellas
- Ungulates (hoofed animals, pigs, goats, deer horses)
- Uniforms
- Urban
- Utensils
- Vacation
- Valves
- Vegetables
- Vices or Habits
- Views
- Vignettes
- Vines
- Visitors
- Watches
- Water
- Waterfalls
- Weather
- Weathered Wood
- Wet
- Wheels
- White
- Wide Angle Everything
- Wildlife
- Windows
- Winter
- Woods
- Xenon
- Xenophobia
- Xylophones
- Yachts
- Yellow
- Yo-yos
- Zebras
- Zig Zags
- Zipper
- Zombies!
- Zoos
Photography Series Ideas
How's that for a list of things to shoot?! Now get out there and take some great photographs!?
- Try these 50 photography ideas at home. From super easy to creative and fun, this list of photography ideas at home has got everything you need. Photograph food, passengers-by, your pets, flat lays, etc. Realize all photography ideas at home without additional props.
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Creative Photography Ideas
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And now, 15 theme ideas for photo contests! I realize that I'm starting a list of photo contest ideas with what is essentially a video contest, but I still think it's a good idea. Timelapse photography is exciting and engaging.
Photography Themes For Projects
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