Five skills of training photographic eyes

Lead: In order to improve your photography skills, it is very important to train your mind to find photographic subjects. As long as you have a pair of "photographic eyes", you will also make great progress in composition and storytelling skills. Here are five ways to train your photographic eyes. Give it a try!

The five skills of training photographers' eyes (1) use only one focal length.

Using a focal length, you can't easily change the composition you want to shoot by zooming. Only by trying to find the shooting theme and angle yourself can you effectively move your head and shoot better works. Usually it is a good choice to use a fixed-focus lens, but if there is no fixed-focus lens, you can also use tape to fix the focal length of the zoom lens to shoot.

(2) Take black and white photos

In the world of color, color can easily distract people. If we can get rid of the color and take black-and-white photos, the patterns and key points in the environment will be more easily found, and over time, we can naturally "see" things worth taking!

(3) Looking for texture patterns

Another kind of training that is very useful for photographers is to find texture patterns for composition. If you look carefully, you will find beautiful geometric figures or textures all around. Fill composition method can be well recorded, and diagonal lines, photo frame composition and other compositions can also be added. This is a simple and effective training method.

(4) Use lines

Just like the previous textures, finding lines can make your photographic eyes more progressive. As long as you look carefully, every photo is also made up of lines, and straight lines and arcs are full of photos. Their characteristics can refer to:

Horizontal line: gives people a sense of balance and tranquility;

Slant: full of energy;

Vertical line: between the above two;

Curve: it makes people feel relaxed and smooth, and it is better to compose with the photo frame.

(5) Try to leave the photos blank.

Blank space is very common in China's ink painting, but it needs more practice to be used properly! Although filling composition can effectively strengthen tension, sometimes appropriate blank space can make photos full of fantasy space and have a stronger artistic sense.

I hope that after reading this article, all students can really implement the above training methods, which will definitely be good for your photography skills!