Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. >> >>-- >>To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html >> > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html