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Exercise: Get your feet moving

Exercise: Get your feet moving

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Exercise: Get your feet moving

I've got a zoom lens on my camera right now. I actually brought a whole bag full of zoom lenses on this trip. I don't have a single fixed focus or prime lens. Zoom lenses are so great for lightening your bag, and keeping your shoulder from hurting and these are really high-quality zoom lenses. I get really nice image quality. That said, I will say that the zoom lens is probably your biggest impediment to learning composition, for the simple reason that they make you lazy. I am standing here. I see that thing over there. I go wow look at that thing over there, and I zoom into it and I take my shot and maybe it's a fine shot. But I haven't moved around. I haven't a really worked it, and yeah I can step over here and over here, but that's not working the shot. So I would like to put it to you to try this assignment. Choose a single focal length and spend the day shooting with it. And I don't mean this casually, I mean either get a fixed focus lens and put it on your camera, or if you…

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