On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 6:55 AM, David J Brooks <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > is what you are >> doing, or have you done, to improve your own photography? > > Nothing, i bought a Nikon.
Good stuff! :-) But buying equipment only rarely does much to improve one's photography. I'm in the middle of a bit of equipment paradigm changing myself and I certainly don't think that's any basis for improvement (although I will say I'm quite delighted with the new equipment I've acquired in the process). Since closing the photo business and going full bore into a new field, as expected I find my time to do photography has shrunk. On the other hand, when I do photography now, it is generally with greatly increased focus and without the constraints of thinking about marketing, salability, etc in mind. So this year, in preparation for heading to the Isle of Man, I reviewed all the photos I'd made there in 2005, 2006 and 2008. I thought about them carefully and planned what I was interested to shoot, realizing that it is rare to be able to do a "complete" project in one visit. So I decided to work the trip, photographically, from the point of view of trying out new ideas and some of the new equipment to see how they worked in the field. - learn how to see with a pinhole/zone plate camera - re-acquaint myself will full time manual focus shooting ... no AF fall back at all - re-acquaint myself with full time manual exposure (do have aperture priority to work with too) - concentrate on less shooting and more keepers - concentrate on more people shooting, in keeping with my other efforts in street and portraiture this year - devise a workflow to use the iPad in the field as complementary to my regular desktop/laptop image management and processing The results have been good so far. I've been too busy to do much processing since I returned due to other commitments, but three-four themes I played with have provided satisfying results. onwards into the holidays! -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- 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.
