mrca
No longer a newbie, moving up!
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I'm sure many of you are stuck at home or even in your house or apartment. Nothing to photo there, right? This is the perfect time to make one of the best photo tools and it is free. Get a file card or piece of cardboard and cut a 2"x3" opening in it. That is the ratio of a 35 mm sensor. Close one eye and look through it, zoom holding it further, go wide angle pulling it closer. Here's the drill. Sit or stand in one place and find 5 or 10 photos with the card. Do this every day til this incarceration is over and you will have really developed that "eye" I keep hearing about. Go in your back yard or take it on a walk. It gets your itchy trigger finger off the shutter and gets you carefully examining what is in the frame. Look for things that don't add to the photo, find a way to move to eliminate them or consider how you will take them out in post. It also helps seeing like a camera, one eye and a rectangular frame. I like a piece of black cardboard and cut a 24mm x 36 mm opening. With that the distance from your eye to the card is the mm lens it represents. You can mark you lens lengths along the long side, 35, 50, 85, 105 and note the distance from your eye. Helps seeing what that lens sees. A fabulous seascape photographer with a gallery on the ocean takes a month every year and goes out with his viewing card for a full month.