Lol... I own the same lamp. It's in my office (aka storage room). And I must argue with you - if you're looking for subject matter just to learn your camera, it's all around you. Photograph anything - stuff you have laying around your apartment (not your sex toys though), go outside and photograph a bush, a flower or a tree. The thing about photography is you can never use the excuse you don't have a subject. It's your job to make a boring subject interesting : ) So yeah, take some pictures and post that shit. I've been on you about this, too.
I don't recall you bellyaching like ehowton, but I know better than to argue with you.
I take your point about making the mundane interesting, but isn't part of the trick to see something in the mundane that no one else sees?
I could really use your help in learning a few things about lighting and the science behind photography, like choosing the right ISO setting, f-stop, aperture and shutter speed. I can almost get each individual concept but the intersection of them all is quite daunting. I need someone who knows what they are doing to look over my shoulder and tell me what I'm doing right and what I'm doing wrong.
Say, this sounds like an exchange waiting to happen. Value for value. Maybe we could make a weekend of it sometime soon. I could help with the book and we could go shooting together. Besides, you have a bundle of joy to shoot and shoot and shoot. Now there's one subject that is never uninteresting to shoot.
I take your point about making the mundane interesting, but isn't part of the trick to see something in the mundane that no one else sees?
I'm hardly an expert on photography but in my photos I find that it helps to take time to "explore" your subject. The first 10-15 photos are pretty much guaranteed to be boring--you are getting your lighting adjusted, playing with angles, checking composition, looking for what should be the background, etc. After that, things get really interesting. If you only ever take one or two pictures of every subject and try to do all the scrap work in your head, it's very hard to get to those "effortless" looking photos. Besides with digital cameras the shots are free. Just go on a walk around your neighboorhood one afternoon and shot whatever strikes you--a colorful leaf, a fence post, the clouds, whatever.
Yeah, I've noticed that. It's annoying having to sift though all the snaps and find the one or two good ones, but when you have a good shot, it's gold.
Have you ever been to the Botanical Gardens? Could be fun to take a day and go shoot there.
It's digital. It's easy to flip through them and find the good ones. I generally upload ~100 pics every day or two and keep maybe 10-20 out of those.
I have, it's beautiful out there. I got a bunch of great shots there when we had some visitors a couple of summers ago.
Also, if you are looking for some technical feedback, there is a photography association in Huntsville that has monthly meeting where they critique photos--and they have a beginner category. Just google Huntsville Photography Association or similar and they should come up.
heh - we tried that once. Here's an 800-comment post in where everyone was trying to explain to him that he could make the movie he wanted to make without having to drop a fortune on a movie camera (of course vehemently disagrees). He also felt the same about owning a fixed camera, which is why I find it so freaking hysterical that here he is with a nice camera and suddenly has "no subjects."
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I take your point about making the mundane interesting, but isn't part of the trick to see something in the mundane that no one else sees?
I could really use your help in learning a few things about lighting and the science behind photography, like choosing the right ISO setting, f-stop, aperture and shutter speed. I can almost get each individual concept but the intersection of them all is quite daunting. I need someone who knows what they are doing to look over my shoulder and tell me what I'm doing right and what I'm doing wrong.
Say, this sounds like an exchange waiting to happen. Value for value. Maybe we could make a weekend of it sometime soon. I could help with the book and we could go shooting together. Besides, you have a bundle of joy to shoot and shoot and shoot. Now there's one subject that is never uninteresting to shoot.
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I'm hardly an expert on photography but in my photos I find that it helps to take time to "explore" your subject. The first 10-15 photos are pretty much guaranteed to be boring--you are getting your lighting adjusted, playing with angles, checking composition, looking for what should be the background, etc. After that, things get really interesting. If you only ever take one or two pictures of every subject and try to do all the scrap work in your head, it's very hard to get to those "effortless" looking photos. Besides with digital cameras the shots are free. Just go on a walk around your neighboorhood one afternoon and shot whatever strikes you--a colorful leaf, a fence post, the clouds, whatever.
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Have you ever been to the Botanical Gardens? Could be fun to take a day and go shoot there.
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I have, it's beautiful out there. I got a bunch of great shots there when we had some visitors a couple of summers ago.
Also, if you are looking for some technical feedback, there is a photography association in Huntsville that has monthly meeting where they critique photos--and they have a beginner category. Just google Huntsville Photography Association or similar and they should come up.
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Huntsville Photography Association
That could be useful.
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The boy is amazing, I'll give him that.
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