Ideas for Daily Exercises to Improve Photography Technique

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manpreet Tuteehub forum best answer Best Answer 2 years ago

I'd like to start improving my photography - and I think that one way to do this would be to introduce some formal structure to the way I practice photography.

One idea I have is to only focus on one specific element of photography each day/week - and use that focus to explore each element in depth.

e.g. I'd either focus on a technical, compositional or content based theme; and would then taking a group of photographs that explore that aspect of photography.

My question is this:

  1. have any of you attempted something similar? If so, did your efforts help your photography.

  2. do you have any examples of themes that would be worth exploring?

I suppose what I'm actually asking for is similar to a syllabus for study - so if anyone has any links to relevant on-line resources I'd be very grateful.

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manpreet 2 years ago

 

In art school we used to do 'true' exercise photography by doing things like:

  • Take n pictures of a single object, making sure that no two were the same (n was generally some large number like '100' or '250') - The exercise was designed to train yourself to begin to see the many ways it's possible to approach a subject...
  • Find an object and take the exact same picture of it every hour for 24 hours (generally an inanimate object... Humans won't stay still for 24 hours! Lol) - The goal was to see how even something that doesn't move changes quite radically depending on what is going on around it.
  • One of my professors used to hate zoom lenses so much that his requirement for letting us use them was that we had to submit a picture at every whole f-stop for every marked focal length on the lens before we could use it for assignments - His intent was to train us to know the capabilities and differences of each focal length so that the zoom functionality didn't become a crutch when composing shots.
  • Take 100 pictures of objects that have a common characteristic (they're all buildings, they're all less than 1 inch wide, they're all blue, etc.) - The goal was to learn how to find interesting pictures 'hiding inside' everyday objects.
  • Take 100 pictures from a perspective you wouldn't normally think to take pictures from (lying down, under water, upside down, cropped to 1x6, etc.)

As an aside, I went to art school long enough ago that we were doing all of this on film. Even though I bought in bulk, used B&W film, self-rolled my film canisters, self-developed, and most of the time we only had to turn in contact sheets of our work (thank God!), looking back it was still an incredibly expensive thing to be a photography student...


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