You’ll start to pay more attention to details, and your standards for what makes a good picture will rise, together with the quality of your work. Once you do, you’ll see that your photography will improve along the way. Start drawing regular day objects, and follow up with some tutorials until you get the hang of it. It doesn’t have to be an advanced one, even some online classes would do. If you have the time, take up a drawing class. Yes, you can write down the explanation, but a decent sketch won’t hurt. It's actually good practice to cast your ideas onto paper in order to make sure you don’t forget them. The additional benefits are that you get better at drawing too, which will prove to be quite useful for sketching scenes that you plan to shoot, creating a storyboard etc. In my local store, recycled drawing paper, soft drawing and toning pencils, quality eraser, and quality pencil sharpener will set you back around $5 in total.
When you start drawing, you become a little addicted to it.ĭrawing isn’t something that will cost you much, in fact it is one of the cheapest hobbies ever. When you start transferring that knowledge and familiarity to paper, it kinda embeds it in your mind with each new drawing you do.ĭrawing by shrimali vijay 6. This is the most important skill that you can learn in photography and the one that pays out the most.ĭrawing and shading a picture is a great way to actually “feel the light”, and start noticing how it takes form over the relief of a surface, the way it bounces from one place to another, how it envelops a certain ridge and so forth. Now, no matter how long you do photography, you will never stop learning, and you will never stop training your eye to judge light.
In photography, it's all about the light, and its byproduct: shadows. Understanding the ways the old masters did their composition and used light to play with the human eye, can be especially valuable.ĭrawing by Alexander Strugach 5. This is something that will come in very handy when you are photographing or planning a scene in the future. Usually, when you start drawing you are drawn to studying the work others did, and that almost always leads you back to the classics, the masters of the craft. This way, you train yourself to see it before even thinking about it, just as you would compose a shot in the rule of thirds you (eventually) don’t think about it, it just comes naturally.ĭrawing by Rick and Brenda Beerhorst 4. When you start drawing, on the other hand, you take measures, hence you're paying more attention to the proportions than in photography. Not that this is essentially bad – often it might not be what you intended, but you’ve done it anyway since you weren’t aware of the proportions. Duh!īy “messed up proportions” I mean using a weird angle that will make the legs appear longer compared to the torso, or vice versa. Ever had that?Īfter a while, I’ve come to realize that the proportions are all messed up. I’ve often found myself staring at a certain photo and wondering what's wrong but not being able to put my finger on it for quite some time. No more thoughtless and dull images – only awesome ones! 3.
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This Course from our friends at Photzy (written by Pro Kent DuFault) will be sure to get your skills polished up! To ensure your photography is a reflection of your inner artist, you’ll want to brush up on the concept of “ Composition“. Oftentimes, that knowledge will prove quite useful in judging the distance and focal length in order to capture what you have pre-visualized. But, when you start drawing subjects, you become aware of the perspective your eye has. This is partly due to the changes that our eye can do, and the “content aware fill” that our brain does on our vision. Yes, we are aware of the perspective that a 200mm lens would create versus a 24mm lens, but not about the perspective our eyesight has. Ok, so 99% of the time we aren’t aware of the perspective that our eyes have.
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