3 Daily Excerises - Train Your Mind To See Photos Everywhere

Using these 3 techniques everyday will help you grow as a photographer - even when you don't have access to a camera.

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[robertmeyerson]

For years I've been taking pictures without a camera. It usually happens when I'm driving and can't safely stop to grab my gear. I snap pictures in my mind noting scenes as I speed by... red barns and wandering fences, backgrounds with mountains and clouds, great lighting, and unique compositions. I tell myself that I'll someday return, but I never do. It's just a fun exercise. .... thanks for the video !

[rp-]

I've been a working pro for over 40 years. To all those starting out, thinking of starting out, or just 'like to take pictures'. THIS video is what you should watch. Thanks mate. Great ideas and video. Two things I would add to his great suggestions. 1) After taking his advice and start seeing these things, the next step is: TURN AROUND. You'd be amazed at what you may be missing. And 2) Take a knee. It changes perspective and can turn a 'good' photo into a great one.

[georgebrudos]

Good stuff. Mom used to say, “if you’re bored, you must be boring!” I’m 63 now, and for more than fifty years I’ve been looking through one lens or another, always trying to capture what others don’t see. Mom’s 85, and never bored 😁

[jacobh]

Excellent tips. Here’s one as a variant/extension to #1. When I started in photography (35+ years ago) for the first years I carried a frame for a 35mm or 6x6 slide with me almost all the time. By holding it up in front of your eye, you start to develop ideas for framing and composition of scenes, without having a camera with you. With some practice you can emulate the different fields of view of your lenses by varying the distance to your eye. The slide frame fits in almost every pocket…

[jurgenschurr]

You are so right. I also write down ideas into a small booklet and spend a lot of time studying my unsatisfaying pictures and develop ideas to make better pictures. All these thoughts go deep into the subconsciousness and vanish sooner or later from the consciousness, but when a nice subject with a great potential appears even at the edge of my field of vision while walking through nature, the idea immediately and clearly pops up out of the subconsciousness, even if many years have passed by since I had that thought. Then I immediately know what to do. However, this works only when I am fully relaxed and not thinking about workaday trouble and other worries.

[richardowen]

It was Ansel Adams' landscapes that inspired my B&W affliction but it was HCB's subject matter that made me want to be a documentary shooter. I was fortunate, late in life, to spend a decade (1998-2008) as a newspaper shooter. One of the most fun jobs I ever had! I got to go play every day!

[iSleepDoc]

“Start to think photographically” ……key to our success!!!!

[photographybypetercharles]

An exercise for a boring day at home. Grab a prime lens and don't put any thought into the selection, just put it on your camera. Then walk around the house and try to see your usual stuff in different ways. Try to turn the mundane into something else by looking at it differently. It's fun and it's amazing some of the images we can turn out.

[raymeedc]

I’m 73. The older EyE gets, the more EyE’m drawn to the beauty in the mundane, the small essential sights I’ve miss takenly passed by most of my life, blinded by the more “magnificent”. Nowadays I find myself focused on cracks/well worn patterns on sidewalks, partial pipe protruding portions, the rustier, the better, proportions of ordinary people posing ordinary captures….. don’t know how I missed all of this, EyE must have been blind ~ 👁️

[hansdegebruiker]

I go a lot to Budapest. This is a beautiful city for photography. I walk around and just sit down somewhere and start to look around. More and more interesting compositions pop up when I let the environment enter my eyes.

[Fuegoshotz]

Once you start doing this you can’t stop haha. I’ll squint my eyes, close one eye, use my fingers as a frame and sometimes imagine what things would look like in my head as if I’m gonna take a photo. I love it because you see the world in this whole new perspective.

[kiwipics]

I do this all day, and especially when out walking, driving, or shopping ... It drives the wife mad, but it always amazes her if I show her a shot of the most mundane of things, and even more so when I think in black and white, or explain how a shot would look in Infrared.

[destroydapacka]

There are a lot of times when I'll be in the kitchen making breakfast, waiting for the coffee to brew and I'll just stand and observe when and where mundane household objects cast their shadow, timing the rhythm of the dripping tap, or how the light through the dirty windows gives them an aged character. Some days I just take the camera down and spend five minutes outside exploring. Creativity is a good way of starting the day, the caffeine just tops it off.

We are surrounded by opportunity, but that window is so small and often lost forever. We take so much for granted in life, that we never see the greatness in the simplicity of the things that surround us. Big things grow from small seeds, and observation is the greatest food a creative mind needs.

[kenbatchelor]

Great video. I total agree with the chap who added that you should Turn Around. After all, half the world will be behind you.

[TooLooseLeTrek]

Good advice indeed. I cut out a small rectangle (2x3 format that I shoot) out of a piece of mat and hold it before my eyes, move it around, bring it in closer and farther, and practice framing images for composition and that helped me a great deal. Thanks for your videos...I've watched quite a few.

[AliasJimWirth]

I am really enjoying going back and watching your earlier videos, Alex, as a particular subject of interest manifests itself. I am pleased to have discovered your channel.

[WarriorsPhoto]

Powerful video.


I remember doing this in the past. I would sit somewhere and just watch the world. 😮😊😅
I miss those days.

[Fuegoshotz]

Also wanted to say sometimes I don’t even take the photos because I love enjoying seeing the moment happen in real time.

[alfredo-iegs]

Thank you for these kinds of videos. I'm newer to photography and see this mindset of you either have it from the start or you don't ("the eye'), but the way you explain how you explain it makes it clear to me it's 100% something that can and will develop if you put the proper work and love into it.