10 Steps To Advanced Photography Skills

[whisker]

This article seems to have a lot in it. Haven't had the time to really take it all in. Here it is anyway.

10 Easy Steps To Advanced Photography Skills

www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/02/17/10-easy-steps-to-advanced-photography-skills/

Enjoy!

[freemindssanctuary]

I have to agree with all of them except for "learn to draw" which was a bit ridiculous. His reasoning is because he admires people who can draw well, that people should learn to do the same, and that if you fail at photography you can become an artist. :/

Besides that the tips were spot on. Although they go towards people who pursue a more professional path towards photography. you don't "need" a tripod nor a $1000 DSLR camera and a set of lenses word $5000 to take good pictures. ideally we'd all wish we had such equipment and its fine if we dont. If you have a deep passion for photography and a few thousand dollars at your disposal, why not!

[whisker]

Thanks for that feedback, FMS. I still haven't had time to read it carefully, but at first glance there seemed to be some good tips.

I saw the paragraph about learning to draw and thought it was interesting, but need to go back and read it again!

My first impression was that maybe he thought it would be a good way of training your eye to see - but I need to go back and read it to see what he really said.
;D

[whisker]

I have taklen the time to read all of that article - and ha e found it very interesting. next, I've clicked on his free tutorial link re HDR and found this:

www.stuckincustoms.com/hdr-tutorial/

I'm still as wise as ever - i.e. not wise at all! - re HDR - but I am willing to learn - no matter how long g it takes.

[freemindssanctuary]

the hdr tutorial is pretty good. I have photomatix myself, however, i take photos with a 7 megapixel digital camera, and any changes done after compiling mostly results in a really pixely low quality image. So i almost always use luminance HDR and GIMP instead.

[joebert]

I agree and disagree. The learning to draw would only help you learn to frame a picture in your head at best. And I disagree with his thoughts of some of the new cameras. If you take the lime and learn to use them they are excellent. My good camera is just a 3.3 pixel Sony and you have seen my pictures. And some of the pictures he used for examples I didn't like. Using a wide angle lens makes the outer buildings curve in. That isn't how your eye sees. And a couple of his pictures like the fireworks. That also isn't what your eye sees. This was a time laspe photograph. Probably about a 5 second shot. Camera's can do a lot of trick things that your eye can never see. Another example is the cars on the street and all the headlight and taillights streaming. That looked like about a 10 second shot. I know I've shot this type of picture. If your friends are experts in photography I guess you could ask them but I joined a couple photography clubs and we had competitions. They would send the slides to someone outside the club and they would judge and critique them for us. So we also got to learm from other peoples mistakes. I use to shoot all my pictures for competition and now I just shoot what I like.

[joebert]

Here's an example, I took a picture of my parrot when I first got the camera.

[whisker]

I like that pic of Ricco, JB! Re drawing - I think anybody who puts time into practicing drawing can benefit from it in many ways - whether is from the point of view of photography or something else!

[joebert]

I just was suprised he used pictures of stuff your eye can't see. You can see a waterfall but you will never see it with a long exposer like this. Makes for a nice picture but you don't see it this way.

[whisker]

I thought that was the idea - making photography into art. The camera doesn't always give you what you see.