Look a little longer

A photograph gives you everything at once. Looking carefully means choosing where to spend your attention.

Start with light and shadow, then consider composition. Shift-click either link to keep it beside this lesson. You can open both and write in their note fields.

On a touch screen, use these links:

Keep light and shadow handy

Keep composition handy

Keep your place

Once a reference is open, jump to its second exercise with Shift-click. It reuses the same reference and keeps your notes.

Continue to the next lesson. Your references stay open while you move between these lessons. A normal link inside a reference navigates the main page, too.

Open a book

Looking Slowly is a small example book about noticing everyday details.

Open Looking Slowly

Close the overlay to return here. Shift-click the same link to put the book among your references instead.

Read the Source opening guide.