This is the moment that you've been waiting for. Welcome to photo assignments. In this video, I'm going to outline the first assignment and technically this is not the first assignment.

The first one was actually to go take 10 to 15 photographs of something that you love, put them in some kind of

sketchbook or journal. And if you have done that, that's great. If you haven't, please do that because I think that's

a really important component to these photo assignments is being able to

collect your work, look at it, print it out, and be able to make judgments on that in order to

get better as a photographer.

And so a couple of things, I will do a Q&A later this week and so

if you have questions leave them in the comments and I will address those and I

will be doing these assignments along with you so you'll see videos on that in the coming weeks.

And so as you can tell by the assignment title here, this one would be called

Variations and I think it's important before we get into this is to talk about what the

objective is on this and about what the objective is on this. And I have the objective

is to increase your capacity for creative thinking. And this is a common thread

that I want to run through all of the photo assignments that we do because I think that really is at the heart of why we're doing these.

We want to get better as photographers.

We want to become more creative-minded and increase our capacity for that type of creative thinking, which comes in very

handy when you're trying to communicate visually, obviously. And so when I was

researching this and it did take a while, most of the books that you find on

creative thinking tend to view creativity as kind of this

mystical dream-like state that you really can't control it's like this magical power

somehow and that kind of wording kind of puts me off sometimes.

I mean, I like the romanticism in that definition.

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