My biggest piece of advice is to shoot what you are interested in. If you're interested in cars, shoot cars. If you are interested in animals, shoot animals. If you are interested in blue, shoot everything blue. If you like people, do portraits. The biggest thing that will drain your creative spirit is shooting things you are not interested in.
In contrast, the thing that will light your creative spirit is to shoot what you are interested in. It will begin to enlighten the path and direction of which you should go next.
Right now, I am interested in landscapes and find feathers quite beautiful. What are some of your unusual interests?
I totally agree with you, although it does take some people a while to find their niche.I've known and met some people that are very specific in what they shoot, like a guy that was only interested in ducks.
Myself, I shoot mostly nature subjects, like birds and other wildlife, landscapes, shooting landscapes and seascapes mostly during twilight hours or sunrise/sunset. But sometimes your location kind of limits or guides your subjects. I like to shoot landscapes with old barns, but where I currently live, I don't see any, so that get a little limited. However, I'm very close to the beach and also close to large tracts of forest and swamps, so nature is here for me (SE North Carolina). And when I'm going to a city and have time I enjoy shooting architecture, especially art deco. And also neon signs (after dark) and theatre marquees. When I lived in Ohio I loved to go out in the Winter when it snowed, it's like a new place, covering all of the brown of Winter, especially if you could shoot during the snowfall. No snow here!
