I’m exploring a number of ways to challenge myself to improve my photographic vision, and I’m going to discuss one of them.
An image is visually compelling because of the arrangement of lines, shapes, colors and textures. The first challenge I’d like to talk about is finding a compelling picture of an unusual and abstract subject, such as paint on a wooden door or rust on an old container, for example.
In such a case, there is no obvious subject to be photographed and the first time I attempted this challenge, it looked to me like there wasn’t very much to do. I was really forced to work my subject, since the proverbial low hanging fruit was nowhere to be found. Getting in really close very much helps, in that it can simplify your compositions a great deal. And it also forces you to be very precise and patient, since at close distances small changes in your point of view change the image in your viewfinder a lot. I’m finding that this exercise is really helping me see better.
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