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One liner photo tips – please add yours
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“By the time you read all these one liners your head will be so wrecked that the best thing you could do is forget about them and figure everything out the most practical way by going out, using your camera and learning by trial and error”
John Brady, July 2008
nfl-fan wrote:
“Rules are made to be bent, broken and twisted”
John Brady, July 2008
“….but tips are very worthwhile”
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John,
On this occasion I have to agree with Ken and Alan, and all the others. Tips, to the likes of me and I am sure many others, are great. I can see a remarked difference in the sharpness of my pictures since Irishwonkafan (Alan) gave me the tip about shooting below 1/60th requiring a tripod. I have practised nearly every day but I never copped this on. Maybe, photography wise, I am not as bright as you, but I am glad of the aforementioned tips. Sorry if this offends, because it was not meant to, but I was a bit peeved with your comments.
Janine.
Fair point Janine… but I won’t apologise for having an opinion… because I personally believe in what I have typed.
My twisted humour aside… if you read both comments I made… there are valid messages there… maybe they are just subliminal.
1. You can spend a lifetime reading about photography… but it won’t necessarily make you a better photographer… you actually have to photograph, make mistakes, learns from them and do better next time. Message: The best way to learn photography is from doing it.
2. There are many rules in photography… but they shouldn’t be classed as “rules”… moreso “guidelines”… e.g. “the rule of thirds”… which I pay little or no attention to sometimes. Message: Don’t get too fussed about rules.
Those are my two tips… they’ve served me well so far.
J
PS. I’ve been a very good boy of late… but it really wouldn’t be the same around here if I didn’t p*ss off at least one person a week… :wink:
With photography, there are times that breaking every rule in the book gets you a cracking shot. many of these come by accident, but once you learn how and why, you can make them happen on purpose.
The best way to learn, in my humble opinion, is to learn the rules – such as shooting with the shutter speed 1*5 the length of the lens, or the rule of thirds AND to go out and shoot and consiously use the rules. Perhaps print off a load of these rules, go somewhere and shoot something your old way, and then read all the rules and start applying them. See does the shot get better. you’ll be suprised at how many rules that you’re already using.
This is a little like music, you have to learn a few rules to start with, practice a hell of a lot, and when you are good enough you can start breaking rules because you know what you want to do. When you start, you probably sound about as good as a 3 legged cat chasing a blind mouse accross a piano keyboard. Sorry, but the same goes for photography. There are a lucky few that take good shots from the minute they pick up a camera, but I’m not one of them. I’ve to work hard at the rules, and constantly check what I’m doing to get results I’m pround of.
that was me getting off the soap box. Bottom line is your both right. Break all the rules by all means, but first you probably need to know a few of them.
Merv.
When your pictures come out soft and blurry your shutter speed is too slow or the light too low or your aperture is too small or your subject is moving too fast or you are moving too fast or the lens is broken or the lens is not properly mounted on the camera or you forgot to wear your glasses or the subject of your photograph is something that is soft and blurry…
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Madra Rua wrote:
When your pictures come out soft and blurry your shutter speed is too slow or the light too low or your aperture is too small or your subject is moving too fast or you are moving too fast or the lens is broken or the lens is not properly mounted on the camera or you forgot to wear your glasses or the subject of your photograph is something that is soft and blurry…
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When changing the lens on your DSLR, switch off first to reduce the dust entering the body.
Said to me by a photographer for the local paper.
“Long exposure!!?? Sure, why do you just not use your flash!!??”
Keep the charger in the camera bag. Keep the UK / European plug converter in the camera bag…
mervifwdc wrote:
If the picture is’nt good enough, your not close enough. (not sure where I read that, but it’s good!)
If you want to take interesting pictures, stand in front of interesting things. (or be very inventive).
Merv.
Robert Capa :wink:
Get some good waterproofs and comfortable walking shoes and
get out there in ALL weathers.
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