Foundations
Photography starts with seeing, not settings. These four shoots keep the camera on Auto and train your eye on what no dial can teach: how light makes the picture, how filling the frame changes everything, how motion can freeze or flow, and which light flatters your subject. Go shoot and start noticing — that's the whole assignment. Every tree after this is just learning to control what you can already see.
4 lessons, easy to ambitious — free to read, free to shoot.
- 1Photography Is LightPhotograph the same subject twice — once somewhere bright, once somewhere dim — to feel how the light alone changes it.
- 2Fill the FramePick one subject and get close enough — by stepping in or zooming — that it fills most of the frame, with little empty space around it.
- 3Freeze or Blur MotionFind something in gentle motion — a friend walking past, a swing, traffic on the street — and capture it both ways, frozen sharp and blurred.
- 4Find Good LightPhotograph the same subject in two kinds of light — harsh midday sun, then soft shade or beside a window — compare how each flatters it.
Shoot this tree, assignment by assignment.
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