Look up creative in your Dictionary and you find this....
Everyone likes to think that he or she is creative, which is used to describe the active, exploratory minds possessed by artists, writers, and inventors
a creative approach to problem-solving). Today, however, creative has become an advertising buzzword ( | creative cooking, | creative hairstyling) that simply means new or different.
Original is more specific and limited in scope. Someone who is original comes up with things that no one else has thought of
an original approach to constructing a doghouse), or thinks in an independent and creative way ( | a highly original filmmaker).
Imaginative implies having an active and creative imagination, which often means that the person visualizes things quite differently than the way they appear in the real world
imaginative illustrations for a children's book).
The practical side of imaginative is inventive; the inventive person figures out how to make things work
an inventive solution to the problem of getting a wheelchair into a van).
But where an inventive mind tends to comes up with solutions to problems it has posed for itself, a resourceful mind deals successfully with externally imposed problems or limitations
A resourceful child can amuse herself with simple wooden blocks).
Someone who is ingenious is both inventive and resourceful, with a dose of cleverness thrown in
the ingenious idea of using recycled plastic to create a warm, fleecelike fabric).
In my opinion creativity has
little to do with success in photography. You can learn/study what makes and image appealing and interesting to a general audience and if you apply this well, then you will be a
successful photographer.
And since success (being able to provide for yourself) is a more basic need than acknowledgment, it is the more important.
So unless you are ingenious, who cares!
