The Photography Skill You Can't Buy: How Visual Exercise Will Transform Your Eye

The Photography Skill You Can't Buy: How Visual Exercise Will Transform Your Eye

I used to think I needed to be out shooting to get better at photography. If I wasn’t behind a camera, I wasn’t practicing. That belief kept me stuck for longer than I’d like to admit, because real life rarely cooperates with scheduled creative sessions. Between client calls, errands, and the general chaos of adult existence, my camera spent a lot of time sitting on the shelf. Then I came across this Sean Tucker tutorial on developing your photographic eye through what he calls “visual exercise,” and it reframed something I thought I understood but clearly didn’t.