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A place to politely discuss the tools, technique and culture of photography.

This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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What is the one photography assignment that taught you the most? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by AlistairInIreland@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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I am looking for structured assignments which will help me improve my photography. I'm an experienced enthusiast - over 20 years of shooting - but I feel a bit stale recently like I've not learned anything new or looked at anything differently. Is there any assignment you have done which you felt moved the dial for you?

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[–] CTDubs0001@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Not so much an exercise but a really simple concept that I came to late in life.

-Every picture should have a very discernible foreground and background.

It may not be for every picture… and it’s something I was definitely doing a lot of the time anyway… but being obvious what your foreground and background are is a really simple piece of compositional advice that just clicked for me. You’re build a little visual stage play; there should be different things going on.