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 p.2 #10 · Beginning Photographer Advice? | |
A good advice on order to make it easier to see own progress...pick a subject. Any subject, your wife, a street, a statue, dogs, cats, planes, a building, you know, anything will do as long as it is defined. Thing is that if you randomly shoot everything that comes in your path it will be harder to see how you progress from each time you are out shooting because the subject differs to much.
Pick a statue or the town square, shoot it, go home and browse the images, ask yourself, friends, familiy or better yet, post it here and ask for C&C, what could be done better. Then get out there and shoot it again, as long as you stick to the same subject you end up with "sessions" were you can compare and analyze images to see were itīs going, how light changes, angle changes and most importanly you will see how you refine the shot from each time.
By all means, shoot other things too but picking a "project" to come back to is a good learning excercise as well as a lot of fun.
Tripods are good once you have warmed up. In addition to keeping the camera still at long exposures tripods also forces you to think twice before setting up the shot due to their slightly cumbersome workflow.
Happy shooting!
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and read through the newest books. Good luck and happy shooting!