A Way to Train Seeing

I have been advising my friends that if we want to improve on our vision (mind you, I cannot claim that I am good, I am still learning) one way is to take out your digital camera, find a very common subject at home and shoot for 36 shots. Use different angle, close up, different lighting, different everything from everyshot. Doing so for a few times, you will not come and say that there is nothing to shoot.

There is one saying, photography is not to take a normal picture of a great subject , e.g. a lovely model, but to take a common subject to make it great. Give it some thoughts.

Frontal shot

Partial shot

side shot

inside shot

back shot

back floating shot

Book spine shot

Imagine the full name

Graphic shot

Book Title shot

Just the black part of the book spine

The publisher

You see a cross ?

The writer

Macro shot of the character

only partial shot.

I can go on forever, forcing me to think how to take this simple book.

Try to beat me with more shot of a book, you are welcomed.