Become a Photographer
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- boobs0
You need to work on little projects.
1) Go over to a friend's place. Make one photo of the biggest knife they have in their home. Make one photo of their main vacuum cleaner.
2) When you have 40 of each, put them all up on Flick'r and have us review them.
3) Starting now.
- Doorman0
how many times.......you can buy the most expensive camera in the world and still take crap shots.
Coz it is not the camera which sees the shot but your eye.
You can take great pics with a cheap camera too. All depends on the composition of the image.
So, I would say learn to know what is a good and a bad composition for any image and THEN you will start to take great shots.
It can take a bit of time. Some people have it and some dont. Up to you.
Hope that helps and good luck.
- ephix0
i think you just wrote your own answer...
"I am not shooting anything. Actually nothing. My camera sits at home."
- dibec0
lol. brother, it takes years and decades. keep shooting, shoot everything, master your camera where you take the picture not the camera. Learn the science behind taking a picture.
- Ambushstudio0
-Put the camera away.
Go out and analyze how light works, forget about strobe lights and fancy stuff like that, study crowds walking, trees moving with the wind and try to find out how shadows move around as the sun hits them, find put what time of the day is the best time to shoot out side based on how you like the shadows and the intensity of the light, if you don't know how natural light works you're fucked. Try to go around this dynamic until you have an epiphany. (you will know)-Shoot film.
If you have the money, the time and patience to learn photography the right way, please shoot film. Digital cameras nowadays are awesome but if you really want to understand what photography is you have to burn film, study the chemistry of fotography and at least learn why silver nitrate reacts to light that way... Test various films (kodak portra 400 nc is my personal fave) and find out wich one you like better, stick to that as much as you can.-Light Meter.
Buy one, sekonic and minolta make the best ones, learn how to use it and use it always, you will get good at reading the light, combine this knowledge with the right film and camera and you will be on your way, those little digital camera screens make everything look good, but in reality is not.-Shoot a LOT.
That is self explanatory.DO this and at least you will understand how retarded is having great equipment and just having it sitting around, you might not be good, but at least you will be decent, oh! talent is required too.
- excuse my typos and bad english.Ambushstudio
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- jaylarson0
Learn to see the Zone System with your own eyes before you try to capture it with your camera
- bigtrick0
pick a photographer whose work you admire. get plastic surgery to look just like them. murder them and assume their identity.
- dibec0
mr dinky ... what are specifically having issues with? composition, color, exposure, light, post processing, clarity, interest ... all ...
- clarkvisual0
have a look at good photos shot using same camera as yours and in additional information next to the photo and click on "more properties" next to the camera make - EXIF data shows how they took it etc.
- ********0
take acid
- Horp0
You need to put a film in.
- janne760
i am mired in grit
