How to cultivate photographic eyes and improve photographic skills?

In the process of learning to take pictures, many people can't help asking themselves: Why is the same scene and the same subject always bland, while the expressions taken by others are always better? In fact, all these can be attributed to the photographic eye. What can be seen and photographed is an observation ability. The same scene, if you look at it with your heart, will be different from what others see. It's your uniqueness to shoot the scenes you see in your heart.

The benefits of photographic eyes to photographic creation;

The biggest advantage is that you can get self-breakthrough and promotion, and have different characteristics from others. The author believes that you must be able to see it before you can shoot it. When I say visible, I mean everything that includes tangible and intangible things. Look at a tree, it can be tangible, such as a tree, or it can be invisible. For example, in your eyes, this tree is an old man, or a giant who protects and defends neighboring grass, or a green flame. Intangible includes meaning, metaphor, imagination, personification and so on. What you see will guide your shooting method.

Tangible and intangible, that is, realism and freehand brushwork in literary realm. When you look at a tree with tangible eyes, the focus of your shooting may be on the green leaves of the tree. When you look at a tree with invisible eyes, a tree may be an old man. Your shooting may focus on the texture of the old bark, like an old man with a vicissitudes of life, or on the traces of time carved on the bark by countless couples. When you regard a tree as a giant who protects and defends neighboring grasses, the focus of your shooting may be the contrast between a big tree and those grasses or neighboring saplings under its feet; Seeing that a tree is a green flame, the focus of your shooting may be looking at the sky from the bottom of the trunk, which is a pillar of the sky and vows to burn the sky.

If what we see before pressing the shutter is always tree green, then we will always only shoot tree green, which is difficult to break through, no different from others. If we can train ourselves to see more intangible things, then our shooting methods will be obviously different from others, and our creative thinking will be endless, just like a tree is no longer just a tree.