New to the DSLR World Advice Sought
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Merry Christmas to all. It has been awhile since I have posted here.
I was the lucky recipient of a new DSLR (Pentax K30O this holiday. I have wanted to “graduate” from my point and shoot days and am now in the deep end of the pool.So many talented photographers here…I thought I’d ask a couple of easy questions. I look forward to reading your answers, in the meantime, I am back to reading the manual cover to cover.
1)What is your favorite camera bag for camera and a couple of lenses?
2)What was/is the best piece of advice you wished you had gotten when you picked up your new camera?
Sam:
Just climbing back in to the office after 4 days away, but here are a couple of answers to your questions.
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I see a lot of folks raving about pelicans…
baby steps here…I have the strap attached and the battery charged.so much to learn, shutter speeds, exposures, etc…
what memory card to get, editing software.
it has been a ton of fun reading about all of this stuff. Looking forward to taking some photos this week, hopefully near the river if the weather allows.
expecting some ice and snow here in the Candlewood Valley this week.
A couple of thoughts from me..
Join a club and have your work critiqued, and learn fom that. If you can learn to impartially self-critique, you are well on the way to improving. Take some shots, review them, figure out what you like or dislike about them, and then go out and re-shoot them till you get it right.
Shoot a ton of photos. Learn one technique at a time from your manual, and work on that technique till you’ve mastered it. Plenty of tutorials on youtube. It doesn’t cost anything to keep pressing that shutter button. I recently shot over 500 frames just to get the one shot.
Try and visualise the photo before you shoot it. With experience you’ll figure out how to manipulate your camera to achieve the shot you’re after.
I’m just about to complete my second “365 Challenge”, taking a photo a day for a whole year. It’s a great way to improve your photography skills, but be warned, don’t take the challenge lightly. It’s a huge time investment, but the rewards it terms of self improvement, and your portfolio are equally huge.
This shot 500 frames in the making…
Day 344 by Secret-Creek, on FlickrHi sam,
My advice for new photographers is to pay attention to the details and always aim to get better quality shots – ask yourself what you could have done better even if it’s the best shot you’ve ever done – push yourself.
For example, composition is very important and the sort of thing you learn by trying different things.
Vertical,horizontal, wide angle, long lens – go hard.
The next thing (IMHO) is to get things like exposure right rather then rely on post processing or computer trickery to fix poorly executed shots.That said, it takes time and practice like anything else- enjoy !
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A picture is thousand words that takes less than a second while a thousand words is a picture that takes a month.
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