Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/31

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Learning to see
From: Bill Satterfield <cwsat@istate.net>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 15:07:10 -0600
References: <0130DC50-3557-11D7-82A5-000393802534@mac.com> <20030131201652.GI21363@panix.com>

Fill the frame. Try to tell a story. Do not take picture post card type 
pictures. You can buy these and save your film, camera and time. Try to 
give a new  perspective to the dime a dozen type photos so common today. 
Most important of all, take pictures. Practice, practice, practice.

Rei Shinozuka wrote:

>how about exercises to capture stuff like:
>
>1. light and shadow
>2. textures
>3. shapes and contours
>4. movement/direction
>5. patterns/repetition
>
>(off the top of my head)
>
>-rei
>
>
>On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 12:03:02PM -0800, Martin Howard wrote:
>
>>I'd like to put together a number of exercises to help the learning 
>>photographer (is there any other kind?) to develop their skills.  Not 
>>necessarily the traditional kind of exercises.  I'm doing this partly 
>>as an exercise in photography, partly as an exercise in Internet-based 
>>presentations.
>>
>>Do you know of any exercises that help develop a photographers eye?  
>>They would need to be relatively focussed ideas: "shoot pictures and 
>>compare to others" doesn't quite cut the mustard.
>>
>>M.
>>
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In reply to: Message from Martin Howard <mvhoward@mac.com> ([Leica] Learning to see)
Message from Rei Shinozuka <shino@panix.com> (Re: [Leica] Learning to see)