On Jan 31, 2011, at 6:45 AM, Boris Liberman wrote: > On 1/27/2011 7:31 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > >> > >> To look like a better photographer, I'm working on my skills at >> throwing out a higher percentage of my photos. One thing that helps >> is to have someone else look through and rate my photos, that way >> it's harder for a photo to get multiple thumbs up. You can't do this >> with too many people, because the best pictures seem to be the ones >> that some people love and others hate. > > You're not lazy enough, Larry...
If I were any lazier, I'd have other people take my pictures for me. Joking aside, sometimes this is the way to "get the shot". I was doing a photo shoot with a couple of friends who wanted to learn a bit about photography. I gave them one camera to use, and I used the other one. I found that when they were working together, they had a chemistry as friends that brought out some shots that I never could have gotten on my own, so I just stood back and poached some great shots while they were working together. My set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157622693852712/ Gwen's set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157622693789376/ Tiffany's set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157622693806436/ I do like to take some credit for their success as I helped them set up the shots, and set the camera and such. > >> I'd love to hear what other people do to either take better photos, >> or to become better photographers. I need to learn what other people >> do to look like better photographers. > > Presently I just take pictures. What I also try doing is to review my own > pictures from distant past (not like those shot a month or two ago), say at > least a year. I also have come to realize that my first encounter with new > "field" is often far worse than any ones that follow. So, I am trying to be > patient and whenever possible re-visit the location or the motif. It seems that every time I try to shoot in new environment, I discover new levels of suckage to my photography. One reason that I take a lot of different types of photos is to try to get the suckage out of the way before it matters. > > I've also found that shooting with prime lenses, thereby fixing the > possibilities of angle of view, makes me shoot somewhat better, not by much > but still, than with zoom lenses. Although recently I've noticed that I seem > to have passed that specific obstacle and presently I am not having any > issues with shooting zooms, which I am doing very often now. I found that shooting primes has really helped me to train my eye, and that if I think about it, even when I have a zoom, I can think about what length I want to shoot, and set the zoom and my position accordingly, rather than just standing in one place and doing rough framing with the zoom. I find it counter intuitive that if I want more emphasis on the subject I should move away and use a longer focal length, but sometimes I even remember when it'll do me some good, rather than several hours later when I'm reviewing the photos. > > That said, I don't have any particular goal (such as going semi of fully > commercial, etc) in my photography. So I just take pictures for fun and > pleasure. That's pretty much where I'm at. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
