I've been thinking about this for a while, and the most important thing is
self editing. If you want to show your technical prowess, and an image
isn't technically excellent don't show it.
Probably the single best thing you can do to improve your photography!
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
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From: "P. J. Alling" <webstertwenty...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Improving the technical quality of my photography
I've been thinking about this for a while, and the most important thing is
self editing. If you want to show your technical prowess, and an image
isn't technically excellent don't show it. Like my recent PESO
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1604247/PESO/PESO%20--%20notmistymourning.html
I didn't have a tripod with me, I did know exactly how I wanted the image
to look, I took 25 or thirty exposures and minutely examined each one for
camera movement and DOF. The exposures that didn't make the cut no one
will ever see. You can't do that with action photos, one exposure is all
you're likely to get. If you practice enough you'll get your hit rate,
but it if the image isn't up to your standards, don't show it, no matter
how good the content is.
As a corollary, don't count on autofocus, it will always focus on the
wrong thing, always, that is unless you have all the time in the world,
they it will get it right.
On 5/30/2012 4:54 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
It often seems that the bulk of my photography is in situations where I'm
pretty much trying to make the best of a bad situation, and I'm not so
much going for a sharp photo, but a photo that is as sharp as I can get
at the moment.
Call me bourgeois, but the poor technical quality (sharpness, exposure
etc.) of my photos has been bothering me lately.
What have you done, if anything, to improve the technical quality of your
photography, and how much difference did it make?
I can't really afford equipment upgrades at the moment, but if changing
gear made a huge difference, that's important to know.
In a related note, if people have noticed consistent technical flaws that
I make, like camera motion, or poor focus, that would also be helpful,
and they could send me recommendations wither on, or off, list.
One thing that I do intend to do is start taking some photos in
situations where it's theoretically possible to get extremely sharp
photos, so that, frankly, I don't have any excuses that I can blame on
the gear.
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