I've been thinking about this for a while, and the most important thing
is self editing. If you want to show your technical prowess, and an
image isn't technically excellent don't show it. Like my recent PESO
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1604247/PESO/PESO%20--%20notmistymourning.html
I didn't have a tripod with me, I did know exactly how I wanted the
image to look, I took 25 or thirty exposures and minutely examined each
one for camera movement and DOF. The exposures that didn't make the cut
no one will ever see. You can't do that with action photos, one
exposure is all you're likely to get. If you practice enough you'll get
your hit rate, but it if the image isn't up to your standards, don't
show it, no matter how good the content is.
As a corollary, don't count on autofocus, it will always focus on the
wrong thing, always, that is unless you have all the time in the world,
they it will get it right.
On 5/30/2012 4:54 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
It often seems that the bulk of my photography is in situations where I'm
pretty much trying to make the best of a bad situation, and I'm not so much
going for a sharp photo, but a photo that is as sharp as I can get at the
moment.
Call me bourgeois, but the poor technical quality (sharpness, exposure etc.) of
my photos has been bothering me lately.
What have you done, if anything, to improve the technical quality of your
photography, and how much difference did it make?
I can't really afford equipment upgrades at the moment, but if changing gear
made a huge difference, that's important to know.
In a related note, if people have noticed consistent technical flaws that I
make, like camera motion, or poor focus, that would also be helpful, and they
could send me recommendations wither on, or off, list.
One thing that I do intend to do is start taking some photos in situations
where it's theoretically possible to get extremely sharp photos, so that,
frankly, I don't have any excuses that I can blame on the gear.
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Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a
lengthily search.
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