Chapter 8 Assignments

If you apply the shooting techniques and tools that you’ve learned in the previous chapters to these assignments, you’ll improve your ability to incorporate good composition into your photos. Make sure you experiment with all the different elements of composition and see how you can combine them to add interest to your images.

Learning to see lines and patterns

Take your camera for a walk around your neighborhood and look for patterns and angles. Don’t worry as much about getting great shots as about developing an eye for details.

Changing your perspective

Take a photo from a standing position, then move down lower to the ground and photograph the same thing. Try to get up higher by using a stepladder or just by inching ...

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