I am looking for structured assignments which will help me improve my photography. I’m an experienced enthusiast - over 20 years of shooting - but I feel a bit stale recently like I’ve not learned anything new or looked at anything differently. Is there any assignment you have done which you felt moved the dial for you?
Not so much an exercise but a really simple concept that I came to late in life.
-Every picture should have a very discernible foreground and background.
It may not be for every picture… and it’s something I was definitely doing a lot of the time anyway… but being obvious what your foreground and background are is a really simple piece of compositional advice that just clicked for me. You’re build a little visual stage play; there should be different things going on.