{"id":58121,"date":"2017-07-19T01:49:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T08:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=58121"},"modified":"2017-07-19T01:50:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T08:50:22","slug":"how-to-train-your-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/19\/how-to-train-your-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Train Your Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Self-portrait by ERIC KIM<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Your most valuable tool in photography: your eyes.<\/p>\n

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How do we train our eyes to see<\/em> better? Some ideas.<\/p>\n

1. Turn off your phone<\/h2>\n
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MARGIELA MASK \/\/ How we see the world with our phones to our face.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our phones are always vibrating, blinking, and making loud noises.<\/p>\n

If we are constantly bombarded with the stimuli of our phones, how can we see the real world around ourselves?<\/p>\n

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To me, I only see<\/em> street photographs when I am not<\/em> distracted by my phone.<\/p>\n

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As a practice, if I go shoot street photography, I turn off my phone completely, leave it at home, or keep it in airplane mode.<\/strong> I then end up seeing<\/em> more stuff to photograph.<\/p>\n

2. Visual dead-lifts<\/h2>\n
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Saigon, 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you want to get ripped in life, do deadlifts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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S\u00c3\u00a0i G\u00c3\u00b2n, 2017 #ricohmafia<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you want to train your eyes to become more powerful, look at great photos. Look at the work of the masters<\/a>, but then seek to kill<\/em> them — to become better than them.<\/p>\n

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Saigon, 2017 #cindyproject<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When you are doing deadlifts in real life, you gotta focus. For me, I can focus at the gym by listening to music, and I get into the ZONE<\/a>. I’ve listened to Kanye Wests<\/a>‘ ‘YEEZUS’ album (Black Skinhead is my favorite song) at least 100 times in the gym. It gets me in the ‘Zone.’<\/p>\n

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Saigon, 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When you are looking at your favorite photographs or art, don’t let yourself get distracted. Only focus on that. Perhaps put on your headphones when you’re studying art, and tune out the world. Invest in some noise-cancelling headphones (BOSE QC-series are the best), or just use in-ear earbuds that isolate noise.<\/p>\n

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BOB DYLAN \/\/ one of the greatest musicians of all time.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Treat your studying of art as your zen-experience<\/a>. I look not at just photos, but all art. Picasso<\/a>, Basquiat, and Leonardo da Vinci<\/a> inspire me.<\/p>\n

3. Make more pictures<\/h2>\n
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Reach for the heavens! ERICKIM<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You can make pictures<\/a> with a camera, or without a camera. I make pictures by snapping photos or by drawing, tracing, on my iPad. Or doodling on a piece of paper.<\/p>\n

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MCLAREN x ERIC KIM<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The more you practice<\/em> — the more you will train and perfect your eye.<\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/h2>\n
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CUBIST CINDY BY ERIC KIM<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When in doubt, MAKE MORE ART<\/a>. Produce photos, pictures, and images 80% of the time — only try to consume 20%.<\/p>\n

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BE STRONG,
\nERIC<\/p>\n

TRAIN YOUR EYES WITH ERIC KIM ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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