Good
digital photography requires effort. You need to
spend time learning the capabilities and
possibilities of your camera. But more importantly
you need to to work at taking the picture. It has
been said in many different photography books,
cameras don't take pictures, people do. That is the
whole point of this web site, to help you take
better photographs. I hope to encourage you to
spend more time on each shot, to think about what
you are seeing, and how to effectively capture that
in your photographs.
Have
you ever been on a vacation, and taken what you
thought was an amazing photograph of a sunset, or a
wonderful seascape, only to get home and be
disappointed with the results? That used to happen
to me all the time. It was then I decided to learn
all I could about photography. I bought magazines,
I read books, I got on the Internet, I took
courses, I studied everything I could get my hands
on to help me become a better photographer.
Do you want to know the biggest single factor that helped me become a better photographer? I take pictures. I take lots of pictures. I practice. I go out and I take photographs just about every day. Some are good, most are OK, a few are great, and a lot just plain lousy. But every lousy shot taken made me a better photographer. Your failures can be as important a learning tool as your most treasured photographs.
Do you want to know the biggest single factor that helped me become a better photographer? I take pictures. I take lots of pictures. I practice. I go out and I take photographs just about every day. Some are good, most are OK, a few are great, and a lot just plain lousy. But every lousy shot taken made me a better photographer. Your failures can be as important a learning tool as your most treasured photographs.
The
great thing about digital photography is just that,
its digital. You don't have to worry about the cost
of film and processing. Once you have a decent size
memory card in you camera, you can go out and shoot
literally hundreds of photographs at no additional
cost. Bring them back, download them on to your
computer, and study your work. Delete all the
rejects, and go out and do it all over
again.