How Can Creative Restrictions Help Photographers? Check Out This Etch-A-Sketch Artist.
6 min readMar 14, 2024
While reading about Gear Acquisition Syndrome(GAS), I found a lesson on creative restrictions. In photography, creative restrictions help because self-imposed restrictions can save money. They also allow the photographer to work within a set up of parameters forcing mastery of the methods and gear within the bounds of the limitation.
What can happen is something similar to this artist. I’m sure this young lady has talent to do whatever type of artwork she would like, but she sticks…