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Practice. Take ten pictures a day for a week, and every day, look at all the pictures so far and honestly critique them. What were you trying to do with each picture, and how did it succeed? How did it fail? Were there elements of composition/lighting/background etc. that you didn't even think about when you took the picture? Think about them next day, eventually it will become second nature to do it.Then do it again for another week. There is a rule of thumb in psychology that it takes 10,000 hours to make an expert. Trust me, I'm no expert, but actually getting out there and _mindfully_ taking pictures will do as much as reading another tutorial; that's why everything from acting to driver training to medicine has both instruction and practice.
Even if you save a copy of a file with a bunch of adjustments in Jpeg under a different name, 1) You don't really have a record of what thos changes are that you made 2) You can go into that copy and undo just one of the changes, such as white balance, while leaving the other adjustments intact. Picasa is viable for light/beginner users, but there is a disk space issue over time with the backups.
xptoastDec 18, 2008
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bullrasslerDec 19, 2008
Practice. Take ten pictures a day for a week, and every day, look at all the pictures so far and honestly critique them. What were you trying to do with each picture, and how did it succeed? How did it fail? Were there elements of composition/lighting/background etc. that you didn't even think about when you took the picture? Think about them next day, eventually it will become second nature to do it.Then do it again for another week. There is a rule of thumb in psychology that it takes 10,000 hours to make an expert. Trust me, I'm no expert, but actually getting out there and _mindfully_ taking pictures will do as much as reading another tutorial; that's why everything from acting to driver training to medicine has both instruction and practice.
dawnraid101Dec 19, 2008
ok all very well and true. But im managing just fine off my 4.5 year old point and shoot + my cellphone. Go check out my flickr <a class="user" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/psteele/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/psteele/</a> to see you dont need the latest and greatest camera.
joshr03Dec 19, 2008
I find that highly unlikely, you must have received a soft copy of the 17-40
steviesteveoDec 19, 2008
This figure of 10,000 hours to make an expert makes me terribly afraid of the vast, vast majority of commercial pilots.Not to mention drivers, eek.
kerouac906Dec 20, 2008
Even if you save a copy of a file with a bunch of adjustments in Jpeg under a different name, 1) You don't really have a record of what thos changes are that you made 2) You can go into that copy and undo just one of the changes, such as white balance, while leaving the other adjustments intact. Picasa is viable for light/beginner users, but there is a disk space issue over time with the backups.
ricworksDec 26, 2008
great. very helpful. tfs. cheers :-)
exoticdigitalJan 14, 2009
Very resourceful. Thank you.
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42ndstreetphotoFeb 8, 2010
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