Play to Learn

August 2, 2016 Len Metcalf

Advice on how to PLAY with your Camera and Photography

Play is how we learn. It Is research, it is experimentation, it is getting away from what you expect. As children, we play to learn, but as adults, we are at risk at losing this ability to play, due to our adult thoughts and expectations. The best way to learn how to take photographs is to take them. Playing with what is possible. It is how we discover new techniques, new ways of seeing and it is how we discover our own photographic style and signature. To learn and understand we must play more. Through play we incrementally improve. Let go the final outcome. Rather than setting out to achieve a photographic masterpiece, set out to see what you can find visually and what you can create. Explore photographic variations by creating multiple visual answers, rather than creating just one definitive visual answer.

Len Metcalf

By Len Metcalf – from Issue 84 (winter 2016) of Better Photography, page 66