How -To Digital Photography Techniques Photo Workout: Exercises To Flex Your Photographic Skills
Photo Workout: Exercises To Flex Your Photographic SkillsUse These Five Exercises To Flex Your Photographic Skills |
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 Workout 2: Edge Mania Composition is an important part of photography. You can study all sorts of things to help you make better compositions, including concepts like the rule of thirds and classic proportions. The key is to look for ways to use the entire picture area and get your subject out of the middle. There’s nothing wrong with having a subject in the middle of the photograph when appropriate, but most of the time, you want to get that subject in other places so your pictures have variety and added interest. Here’s an exercise to help you learn to use the entire visual area of your photograph. Exercise: Work The Edges What You Need: A camera and your favorite lens. Do this exercise in any convenient setting. What To Do: Make a series of photographs, at least 20, where every picture keeps the subject out of the middle of the photograph. Don’t even use the rule of thirds. Take it so far as to make sure that there’s nothing important in the middle of the picture. Put your subject or important parts of your scene out along the edges of the photograph. Review: Examine your photographs and look at what’s happening to them because important parts of the picture are out along the edges. Look at how visual relationships are occurring throughout the image. Notice how your eye moves around the photograph in an interesting way because there’s nothing in the middle to cause the eye to stop.
Workout 3: Follow The Bouncing Focal Length Zoom lenses are the most common type of lens that photographers use today. There’s certainly good reason for that; the ability to change focal length as needed makes it much easier to capture exactly what you want from a scene. You can get a wider view when the scene demands it, or you can zoom in to capture a detail as needed.
Workout 4: Color Becomes You Color is an important part of photography because it’s such a big part of how we experience our world. Color is all around us, and it’s so much a part of our lives, that we often take it for granted. The result is that our color images also take color for granted. Color itself can be a wonderful part of any photograph. How color appears in the foreground, the background and even the subject itself can greatly affect how we look at an image. When we consciously choose those colors, we can control how the photograph appears to a viewer. This exercise will encourage you to do just that.   |
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