There are some exercises I sometime try when I get stuck. The suggestion of studying art is a good one. Yet try these assignments.
Most of the time there is something unusual in ordinary objects. Look for the different in the everyday.
The second is give yourself an hour to photograph, but limit what or where you can photograph to a very small area. The last time I did this I took photos for an hour of a single small flower bed. If forces you to look closer.
Exercise 3 Don't out to photograph things, but patterns lines and curves. The curve of a country road would count, the lines of a fence, the patterns in the sand, but your thinking is to be to incorporate something more than just an object. Good luck
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Subject: Working on your "eye"
From: David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, September 11, 2009 1:17 pm
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
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So how does one work on one's "eye", by which I think I mean one's
instinctive grasp of composition? Or for that matter, how does one
improve one's sense of composition at any level? I'm reasonably sure
that's the weakest point in my photography, and at least one commenter
this week seems to agree.
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