Visual acuity — the skill, your creative and compositional sensitivity to the world:
How to see more photo opportunities
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When you witness things happening before your very eyes, you must react. Typically what this means is to be *interested* in the world around you, and having the hunger for new social spaces, new visual stimuli and foreign and new views!
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Analyzing your photos after the fact
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When you shoot a photo and scene, just follow your gut. But when you go home and analyze your photos after the fact, try to figure out *why* you like the photos and images. I call this trying to figure out the “visual gist” of an image:
On exercising your visual muscles
“Use it or lose it” seems to be an apt phrase here when it comes to your visual and creative muscles and growth!