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Learn to previsualize. If I would teach people one thing about photography. Is learning previsualization. This is a very interesting and exhaustive guide. It'
by salimmadjd 8y ago
Learn to previsualize.
If I would teach people one thing about photography. Is learning previsualization.
This is a very interesting and exhaustive guide. It's great for analyzing photos that work and explaining why they do work.
I think photography (for beginners) should be about personal fulfillment, capturing memories and telling stories.
Along with that (as others have pointed out) just learn about the rule of thirds.
You can practice previsualization all the time and like anything else, it's something you get better the more you do it. For example, my default street photography lens is 28mm. I think shooting with long lenses is not intimate. After many years, my eyes see in 28 and I know more or less what the frame will be once I look through the camera. I've usually taken the photo in my head before I even lift the camera. Sometimes the result is better than what I imagine, sometimes is worse.
- notyourday 8y agoThere's one other thing that very few people learn or intuitively understand: there's an enormous amount of light and visuals that we process due to our peripheral vision. While we may think the scene is 3:2 that we frame with a camera, in reality our brain captures 120-180 degrees of information outside the 3:2 frame which adjusts our perception of what would be in a photo vs. what would actually end up in a photo. Same goes with the light: if you want to know how the camera sees the scene, squint -- it would compensate for extra peripheral light.