On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:50:22PM -0800, Larry Colen wrote: > > What I think is a much more productive question to discuss, is what > you are doing, or have you done, to improve your own photography?
To be honest - nothing with that as an explicit goal. My photography is a hobby, not a driving force in my life. I take photographs to remind me of things I've done; with the exception of trying to get out of the house at least once a week to shoot something for my PAW gallery I don't do anything that's driven by photographic requirements. I've put money into getting better tools (auto-focus when my own abilities were losing me too many shots, the K-5 for low light situations, and longer or better glass when I felt it would help). But I'm not really working on my technique - the photographs I get meet my requirements. I do try and avoid making the same mistake more than once or twice, and I do occasionally go back and try to get a better version of a shot after looking at what I had done. And sometimes (as in my recent hummingbird picture) I'll take a fair number of shots with different settings, and see what shutter speed, aperture, etc. work best for me. In general, I'm reasonably satisfied with my abilities as a (casual) capturer of images. Unfortunately the same can not be said of my abilities in post-processing and print preparation. Fortunately it's quite easy to go back to the original capture (or scans, for some of the earlier stuff) and try again. That, too, has been helped by better tools (Adobe Lightroom and a calibrated monitor, to name two). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
