Some random thoughts... 1. Intentional Handicap...
Yeah, like shooting only with one prime. Then I routinely take my film cameras out so that in itself imposes a variety of handicaps: one ISO setting decided by the film, manual focus (I only have one AF film cam > MZ-3) and usually 36 exposures (I'm cheap...). Recently, when the E-6 lab in the country drowned in one of our floods, so I have confined myself to shooting black & white (usually the C-41 stuff because I'm to lazy to process it myself). 2. "Cross training" Shoot something which is not your usual subject or within your comfort zone. Also...I took my son out on a gun range; he realized the intent was to help him hold the gun/camera steady and not rely on the SR too much (something which I needed to remind myself as well). 3. Fight familiarity...(i.e., buy/use a Nikon) Being too "familiar" with a Pentax, I tend to get sloppy pushing buttons around; try as I might to be deliberate and careful in how I set up a shot I would easily slip into that "familiarity". Using a different brand forces you to be deliberate in setting things up (i.e., Nikon: "where the h... is the 'tungsten' WB setting...?). On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > On another photo forum I occasionally hang out on, someone posted "What are > your pet peeves in photography that you see other photographers do?", and > boy was there a lot of responses of people gleefully putting others down. My > feeling is that all that crappy photographers do is make my photos seem that > much better in comparison. What peeves me is when I'm shooting someplace > with someone else, and they get much better photos than I do. > > 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? Are you > practicing hand held shots at low shutter speeds? Taking test shots without > using the light meter to get a feel for what light gives what exposures? > Spending a month shooting with only one prime lens at a time? Posting > PESOs to be ridiculed by the gang on PDML? > > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (from dos4est) > > -- > 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. > -- Bong Manayon http://bong.manayon.net -- 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.
