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Lesson 99 of 100

Overcoming creative blocks

Photograph by Carl Cooper LRPS illustrating overcoming creative blocks
Photograph by Carl Cooper LRPS.
Course archive date: 2026-09-21   |   Carl Cooper LRPS
No prior knowledge needed. Keep your camera or phone beside you and try each control or idea as it appears. The aim is understanding, not memorising terminology.

What this lesson is really about

Overcoming creative blocks is easier to understand when you stop treating it as a definition and make a visible comparison. The aim is to know what decision you are making, what you expect to change and how to recognise that change in your own photograph.

Change one thing at a time

Use your own equipment

Now prove it with the practical

OPEN THE PRACTICAL