Darn, I forgot to say I only shoot jpegs! Now, I know I've lost your respect forever.
I shoot what I see and move on ...
I'll try again. I'm a Star Trek fan!
Oh by the way... whats with all the negativity a few pages back? I'm a bit puzzled. Opinions are just that... theres no right or wrong with them...
I think, perhaps, that one thing that could be done for newbies is to steer them gently toward useful resources. Perhaps there could be a sticky for "Digital photography 101" on this forum.
Cheers, Jock
I'd never given how you shot a moment's thought. But now knowing is just further evidence that you are the absolute poster child for "it's ALL in the eye" - everything else is just icing on the cake. The eye for image is the cake and you're one hell of an amazing cake Karen!Ok, I'm going to "out" myself, a good 90% of my photographs is "happy snapping". I shoot what I see and move on ... usually trying to catch up with my hubby whose got longer legs than me! I do most of my photography when I am with him or others (who don't have cameras) so I don't have the leisure of twiddling the dials or trying to remember where the heck the settings are in the menus before I take my shots. I'd get moaned at and what would be the fun in that.
Do you look at my work and think heck she would take much better pictures if she took it off P? I very much doubt you've gave it any thought. I don't think about it when I look at your pictures. I just look and think, yeah I like it, or no I don't.
Sometimes it's good to throw away the rule books. Make it your new year resolution!
Ok, I'm going to "out" myself, a good 90% of my photographs is "happy snapping". I shoot what I see and move on ... usually trying to catch up with my hubby whose got longer legs than me! I do most of my photography when I am with him or others (who don't have cameras) so I don't have the leisure of twiddling the dials or trying to remember where the heck the settings are in the menus before I take my shots. I'd get moaned at and what would be the fun in that.
Do you look at my work and think heck she would take much better pictures if she took it off P? I very much doubt you've gave it any thought. I don't think about it when I look at your pictures. I just look and think, yeah I like it, or no I don't.
Sometimes it's good to throw away the rule books. Make it your new year resolution!
I would point out that with the exception of white men who venture into the wilderness and pensively capture the wonders of nature with full frame cameras, not a lot of people do have the time to stop and set up every single image perfectly.
LOL! I've just begun watching season 3. It never came to our town when it was released, so I never saw it back then. I might have been a fan many years earlier if I had.Original series, Right on! Everything else, thumbs down! But that's just me.
, "I thought I bought the best camera, why can't it do everything for me?"...
I don't think anybody actually comes right out and *says* it, because they wouldn't want to seem an idiot. However, I personally know one individual who spent an absolute fortune on his first DSLR, a Nikon D80 with an 18-105 lens. Nice bit of kit, but he never understood it. He never really tried. He thought if he just pressed the shutter, that it would, in fact, do everything for him. So what he got was unfocussed, underexposed, overexposed etc etc... He never learned about aperture/shutter/ISO and how they interact, and in the end, the camera sat on a shelf gathering dust. (Literally, I was horrified when I saw the state of it). I pointed him at a number of websites where he could learn at his own pace. In the end he realised that he needed less camera, not more. I recommended the Fuji X-20 and he's been a happy chappy ever since, and at least most of his photographs are in focus. He doesn't do any post processing but at least he has something. But he still won't admit the D80 purchase was a mistake.I've never heard anyone say this....
I've never heard anyone say this....
Oh THAT's what that thread was about? I never opened it.