Things I have learned from Photography and Videography.
Oct 17, 2009 09:52
A $1700 camera and $300 lens for video will not prevent you from getting your fingers in the shot while trying to manually adjust focus.
No amount of sensor size, fast lens, and high ISO combination will compensate for "It's dark out here."
HDR is very useful in very specific situations. But usually it just looks garish.
RAW is the best possible, but JPEG has it's place. That place is usually on a deadline.
Complete strangers will be perfectly happy to let you photograph them, as people love to be photographed.
Your good friends will be annoyed when you photograph them, as people hate to be photographed.
Never shoot anything handheld at less than 1/100, unless you want to create abstract art.
When you buy cheap first, you will soon find that what you really needed was the expensive stuff.
When you buy expensive first, you fill soon find that there was a much cheaper alternative that did what you needed.
There is an international conspiracy of camera manufacturers to create at least one easily correctable flaw in their products that would otherwise make them perfect for what you intend to do with the camera.
Just because a camera CAN go to 12800 ISO, doesn't mean that the camera SHOULD got to 12800 ISO.