Comments on: For Beginners – Learning to See https://digital-photography-school.com/for-beginners-learning-to-see/ Digital Photography Tips and Tutorials Fri, 02 Aug 2019 02:22:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Yvonne https://digital-photography-school.com/for-beginners-learning-to-see/comment-page-1/#comment-479725 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 05:52:15 +0000 https://digital-photography-school.com/?p=44038#comment-479725 Thanks that was a good comment and interesting

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By: Fenny https://digital-photography-school.com/for-beginners-learning-to-see/comment-page-1/#comment-448911 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:16:34 +0000 https://digital-photography-school.com/?p=44038#comment-448911 Wow! I just realized I found a word I haven’t heard before when read from right to left. You’re right, my head also followed the words! hahaha.. Interesting technique!
This year I am taking picture every single day, like a daily journal; I’m sure by using this method I will spot something new :D. Thank you, Dale!!

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By: Sorin https://digital-photography-school.com/for-beginners-learning-to-see/comment-page-1/#comment-403285 Wed, 26 Dec 2012 20:26:36 +0000 https://digital-photography-school.com/?p=44038#comment-403285 Brilliant! Extremely simple and most probably effective due to its logic. I’ll put it at work. How many times at home looking for something we pass by several times without seeing it… Because we skip, we kip skipping…
Thanks
Sorin

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By: Cynthia https://digital-photography-school.com/for-beginners-learning-to-see/comment-page-1/#comment-400269 Sun, 23 Dec 2012 13:01:42 +0000 https://digital-photography-school.com/?p=44038#comment-400269 An artist I sat for (in my youth) used to use a mirror to view the scene he was painting backwards.
He said it helped him see many more things, whether it was objects or colors or perspective.

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By: Cynthia https://digital-photography-school.com/for-beginners-learning-to-see/comment-page-1/#comment-400266 Sun, 23 Dec 2012 12:57:44 +0000 https://digital-photography-school.com/?p=44038#comment-400266 Reading the scene from right to left!
This was such a great basic action to take. I can relate to what you suggested and said our mistakes can be.
I am a novice but dream of taking great pictures. I think I am one step closer. Thanks!

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By: Naz https://digital-photography-school.com/for-beginners-learning-to-see/comment-page-1/#comment-399174 Sat, 22 Dec 2012 07:27:12 +0000 https://digital-photography-school.com/?p=44038#comment-399174 Yes Francis- that is the same concept- the upside down view forces you to see things that we normally would gloss over without givign much htought when viewing hte subject in it’s right orientation- Turn a chair upside down, and you very quickly begin to notice the spaces between the rungs, the shapes and angles of legs, the slant of seat, the ornate carvings in the rungs etc- Looking at the scene for you I imagine forces you to look at edges, noticing thigns that might be distractign thaT you might havem issede when viewing hte scene correctly- what you describe is the same cocnept as the art excersizes

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By: Francis Koo https://digital-photography-school.com/for-beginners-learning-to-see/comment-page-1/#comment-398890 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 21:57:11 +0000 https://digital-photography-school.com/?p=44038#comment-398890 I am a 4×5 LF camera shooter. Every image on groundglass is upside down. This help me to compose a better image.

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By: Ed Law https://digital-photography-school.com/for-beginners-learning-to-see/comment-page-1/#comment-398712 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 18:36:43 +0000 https://digital-photography-school.com/?p=44038#comment-398712 After 75 years (started with Kodak and wet darkroom in 1937 at age 13), I am still reading and hopefully learning.

Going through flight training in 1943 a to become a Marine pilot we were given many flash photos of enemy aircraft, ships and other scenes.

Sometimes I look at a scene and close my eyes quickly to visualize what I actually saw.

The comments of viewers are almost as interesting as your post which certainly is appreciated.

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By: Naz https://digital-photography-school.com/for-beginners-learning-to-see/comment-page-1/#comment-398071 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 07:13:27 +0000 https://digital-photography-school.com/?p=44038#comment-398071 in art, one excersize is to draw objects upside down- thsi forces the artist to concentrate on subject fully because it’s unfamiliar view to the artist, and it gets them ind away from it’s elimination ability where htem ind cuts out detail and just forms a generalized view of objects. It kind of goes along with what this article is talking about- makign hte mind do something unfamiliar in order to get it to slow down, cocnentrate, and really take notice- situational awareness- and just like anyhtign else, it needs to be practiced to develop it-

another semi related bit of advice I recently ran acros which will compliment this article was to ‘eiminate, eliminate, and then eliminate soem more’. The world is generally very chaotic and has many distractign elements in scenes- keep cropping out distractign elements so that the end result shows a strogn subject matter- for isntance- take a church for example- take a photo of the whole church and it’s an ok photo- but lots of distractign elements- you have front of church, steeple, boards ornate decorations, windows, trim, nails, knots in boards, rug in foyer, columns in entrance way, on and on it goes. It can still be a nice shot, but Eliminate soem of this by cropping in to just the door with hte windows and church symbols etc- and you’re narrowing hte focus to a stronger subject- crop in even tighter to the stained glass on the door showign religious figures only, and you’ve still got your ‘church’ subject matter, bvut have elimianted a lot of distractign elements and made a strong subject shot

I ran into htis process of elimination, and scanning technique this fall- drove to a small lake durign changing of the leaves, hadm ountains behind lake, and interesting foreground- the shots were nice, but very typical really- and had lots of ‘chaos’ in the scene- the eye just wandered everywhere rapidly through the scene jumping all over the place- but then I took shots of just the trunks of the distant shore trees, and showed the reflection of the changing leaves i nthe calm water- this proved to be much more itneresting shots- then I eliminated even fuirther shwoign only the reflections with the different colors- made for soem pretty neat abstract shots- the point being that looking at the whole scene- it was hard to decide what to concentrate on- but htem ore i was able to eliminate, the more interesting hte shots became-

Learnign to really see is hard- it takes getting into a scene and really workign htat scene visually- breaking out of our normal way of seeing which like htisw article suggest, just generalizes (and hten we take a photo and wodner why it looks so confused and chaotic)- and forcing our braisn to really see the scene and all the details individually- Itr takes a lot of work mentally- and excersizes like htis article point out can really help start to shape our way of seeing-

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By: colette https://digital-photography-school.com/for-beginners-learning-to-see/comment-page-1/#comment-397929 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 03:00:24 +0000 https://digital-photography-school.com/?p=44038#comment-397929 i defitely use your way of looking before i shoot

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