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Monday
Jun272011

Find a photograph in your own backyard

Digital Photography School has created a tutorial with 8 ways to exercise your photographic muscles in your own home.

A taste:

Find Lines and Shapes.

Inside or outside your house, photograph lines (or specific shapes) anywhere you find them.

This is a really fun exercise because lines and circles are everywhere. They are the building blocks of visual design, so this project is good training for seeing the underlying form of what you’re photographing.

It also helps you take the labels off of things and see them in new ways. Here, we know this is a computer keyboard, but what attracted me were all of the lines I could see, as well as the squares around each key.