There is a forum for photography which has some really good advice on there. (Am I allowed to "advertise" that on here? Please delete if it's not. If it is, I will edit with the website). I belong to it and it can be really useful on there for questions about starting up in photography. But a word of warning, have a little browse round and look at what has already been asked first. There are some really cranky people on there (not just me haha)
TalkPhotography. It's a good site if you can sift through the arguments. Loads of useful information on there plus there are regular meets to generally wander round, take a few pictures and have a few beers.
TalkPhotography. It's a good site if you can sift through the arguments. Loads of useful information on there plus there are regular meets to generally wander round, take a few pictures and have a few beers.
I'm on that as well redbub, not used it for a while to be honest but is a very good site. Met some good friends from there after doing a few of the London trips, ended up spending more time in the pub in the end though :0)
TalkPhotography. It's a good site if you can sift through the arguments. Loads of useful information on there plus there are regular meets to generally wander round, take a few pictures and have a few beers.
I'm on that as well redbub, not used it for a while to be honest but is a very good site. Met some good friends from there after doing a few of the London trips, ended up spending more time in the pub in the end though :0)
You should come along to the "mega-meet" in June. I'll be the one hanging round being crap with my camera. If it's not running around on a football pitch, I just can't seem to look like a decent photographer. Little embarrassing really haha.
Just whatever you do, don't look at the Staff POTY as my entries are woeful. I am definitely a one trick pony
OK, promise ;-)
Bit of a plug for my photography blog/site - DA12Photography
Still trying to get better, let me know what you think, be gentle though.....
no good me helping you. Have you seen my non-football stuff haha. It shpuld be you helping me! Although I must remember to send you a couple of pics I got of you at the Bournemouth game
TalkPhotography. It's a good site if you can sift through the arguments. Loads of useful information on there plus there are regular meets to generally wander round, take a few pictures and have a few beers.
Just signed up looks a decent site, thanks for the tip.
I'd love to get better at photography, but my camera, a canon 600d spends its entire life on Auto and hopefully I get at least one goodish shot out of 50. And there all of our dogs
Does anyone know, can I get a second Flickr account. I don't think anyone would want a link to the I account I currently have as it's where I store all the shit I post on here.
Does anyone know, can I get a second Flickr account. I don't think anyone would want a link to the I account I currently have as it's where I store all the shit I post on here.
Sign up with a different email address - I used to have two, so it's possible.
having a good camera doesn't necessarily make you a better photographer, it just gives you more options.
it's pointless having a good camera if all you do is put it on auto and let the camera do the work for you, that doesn't help you develop a better approach.
get to know your camera very well, understand what it's capable of doing in comparison to a more multi task camera.
apple recently ran a campaign for the camera on their iphone 6, they used joe public pictures and displayed them as bus stand posters. while I'm not suggesting they were great photos, it did go to show that you can take good pictures with simple equipment.
the importance is to have an good eye and recognise what potentially can be a good image. a good camera won't in my opinion give you that, you need to develop it.
find subjects that interest you and try and develop a way of expressing those subjects to their best. do studies on subjects. don't just take one picture of something and think I've cracked that, take many, explore different viewpoints, different aperture and speed settings. short and long depth of fields and so on.
also try to get to know what different light conditions are suitable for what type of image. bright and sunny isn't always the best, particularly if your shooting people or portraits sometimes a flatter light ( overcast ) is preferable, because it's softer on flesh tones.
it also depends on what you want to do with your images, if you're just going to download onto your computer and leave it there, then you don't need a good camera for that but if you intend to print your images, then good quality files will allow you to print bigger images without losing quality, that's why some people have suggested shooting in raw.
and now to contradict myself, I do think sometimes being a technical photographer can sometimes prevent you from being an expressive one, so definitely know your camera and be comfortable using it and what it can do but don't necessarily always follow the " correct ' approach, try the alternative, I find it can pleasantly surprise.
and as others have said the beauty of digital is you can take endless pictures and just delete if you don't like.
having a good camera doesn't necessarily make you a better photographer, it just gives you more options.
it's pointless having a good camera if all you do is put it on auto and let the camera do the work for you, that doesn't help you develop a better approach.
get to know your camera very well, understand what it's capable of doing in comparison to a more multi task camera.
apple recently ran a campaign for the camera on their iphone 6, they used joe public pictures and displayed them as bus stand posters. while I'm not suggesting they were great photos, it did go to show that you can take good pictures with simple equipment.
the importance is to have an good eye and recognise what potentially can be a good image. a good camera won't in my opinion give you that, you need to develop it.
find subjects that interest you and try and develop a way of expressing those subjects to their best. do studies on subjects. don't just take one picture of something and think I've cracked that, take many, explore different viewpoints, different aperture and speed settings. short and long depth of fields and so on.
also try to get to know what different light conditions are suitable for what type of image. bright and sunny isn't always the best, particularly if your shooting people or portraits sometimes a flatter light ( overcast ) is preferable, because it's softer on flesh tones.
it also depends on what you want to do with your images, if you're just going to download onto your computer and leave it there, then you don't need a good camera for that but if you intend to print your images, then good quality files will allow you to print bigger images without losing quality, that's why some people have suggested shooting in raw.
and now to contradict myself, I do think sometimes being a technical photographer can sometimes prevent you from being an expressive one, so definitely know your camera and be comfortable using it and what it can do but don't necessarily always follow the " correct ' approach, try the alternative, I find it can pleasantly surprise.
and as others have said the beauty of digital is you can take endless pictures and just delete if you don't like.
enjoy.
I appreciate what your saying, but it was bought with the intention of getting back into photography. As you maybe aware what the training of my dogs, their work with the Upbeats and other charity organisations along with their tv work, to just take my dogs and a camera for a relaxing walk is a rarity. I'm a firm believer that a good equipment will help a novice improve but bad equipment will hold you back no matter how good you become. I started off with a compact (which I often carry) moved on to a bridge camera, now have my Canon. I often recognise what would make a good shot, unfortunately my dogs don't, hence its set on Auto with sports setting for moving objects, I taken some good shots (in my opinion) and Ive taken loads of the ar5e end of my dogs. I have some 10,000 photos, I'd be surprised if there are 1000 good ones, but as you rightly say thats the beauty of digital. My next project is..... How to delete photos from an Apple Mac
t c e, my comments weren't in reference to any of yours, they were to the original poster.
of course there are times when auto is very useful but I do believe it's important to know why that may be, not just because it's the easy option.
as you say, moving subjects, particularly ones that you can't always predict, then auto can be excellent.
do you ever try panning your camera when shooting moving subjects, you can get some great results and images and if you're close enough, you can use flash to freeze your subject, while blurring the background, enabling your subject to stand out from it.
I only shoot on my iPhone 5c and love it but then I have worked in the industry for a very long time and perhaps have a better understanding of what I can and can't do with it.
There was a flurry of activity a few months back on the Charlton Life Flickr Group, but since then not a lot. I did wonder if it may me worth agreeing a little project: to pick a game and document it. I know that Beds and one or two others sometimes post match pictures on here and that is great, but I wondered if we could go about capturing a wider range of images. Perhaps stuff outside the ground, crowd scenes, some of the ephemera around the ground and so on. I think it would be interesting to see some of the details from around different parts of the ground and different perspectives. Perhaps these could be used to build a nice montage.
If anyone's up for it, the Hull game next Saturday seems to be as good as any. What do you think?
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Bit of a plug for my photography blog/site - DA12Photography
Still trying to get better, let me know what you think, be gentle though.....
Might be good to get a CL Flickr pool going.
Tried to get this of the ground with the museum, you would be ideal to do this.......
Flickr Pool
it's pointless having a good camera if all you do is put it on auto and let the camera do the work for you, that doesn't help you develop a better approach.
get to know your camera very well, understand what it's capable of doing in comparison to a more multi task camera.
apple recently ran a campaign for the camera on their iphone 6, they used joe public pictures and displayed them as bus stand posters. while I'm not suggesting they were great photos, it did go to show that you can take good pictures with simple equipment.
the importance is to have an good eye and recognise what potentially can be a good image. a good camera won't in my opinion give you that, you need to develop it.
find subjects that interest you and try and develop a way of expressing those subjects to their best. do studies on subjects. don't just take one picture of something and think I've cracked that, take many, explore different viewpoints, different aperture and speed settings. short and long depth of fields and so on.
also try to get to know what different light conditions are suitable for what type of image. bright and sunny isn't always the best, particularly if your shooting people or portraits sometimes a flatter light ( overcast ) is preferable, because it's softer on flesh tones.
it also depends on what you want to do with your images, if you're just going to download onto your computer and leave it there, then you don't need a good camera for that but if you intend to print your images, then good quality files will allow you to print bigger images without losing quality, that's why some people have suggested shooting in raw.
and now to contradict myself, I do think sometimes being a technical photographer can sometimes prevent you from being an expressive one, so definitely know your camera and be comfortable using it and what it can do but don't necessarily always follow the " correct ' approach, try the alternative, I find it can pleasantly surprise.
and as others have said the beauty of digital is you can take endless pictures and just delete if you don't like.
enjoy.
of course there are times when auto is very useful but I do believe it's important to know why that may be, not just because it's the easy option.
as you say, moving subjects, particularly ones that you can't always predict, then auto can be excellent.
do you ever try panning your camera when shooting moving subjects, you can get some great results and images and if you're close enough, you can use flash to freeze your subject, while blurring the background, enabling your subject to stand out from it.
I only shoot on my iPhone 5c and love it but then I have worked in the industry for a very long time and perhaps have a better understanding of what I can and can't do with it.
If anyone's up for it, the Hull game next Saturday seems to be as good as any. What do you think?
https://www.flickr.com/groups/2804307@N21/
Havent had a massive chance to get out and about with the camera of late though