I brought up the question of photographic skill a while ago on this or the Bob list, asking for books or instructions on improving my very poor skills; the consensus in reply was: practice, paying attention to your results so that you start to see what action produces what results. I must do that; busy enough that I forget about that earlier discussion.
On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 6:46 AM True Golden <truegol...@att.net> wrote: > Patrick, > > Thank you. > > I am definitely an amateur. > > Three decades back I took a photography class and learned the basics. > > I bought a good Nikon film camera and several lenses and practiced quite a > bit, even buying a dozen or so photography books to try to improve. > > While my children were growing up I took many pics of them. > > When I got into cycling the two hobbies meshed and more often than not I > had a camera with me on my rides. > > These days with a decent smart phone or compact digital camera it's of > course easy to snap away. > > It's also easy to get sloppy and not concentrate on the various aspects of > a decent pic and rush which I most often do. > > Along with the improved cameras on phones the editing software has > improved which makes it pretty convenient to crop, adjust, the light, > exposure, contrast, color saturation, tone and quite a bit more to one's > preferences. > > Also I make good use of the delete button. > > I love playing with various special effects features also. > > Photos turn out better of course if I think through the composition, the > lighting, etc > b4 snapping it, having something decent to work with on the editing. > > Over the years I've had 3 friends that were quite good, one a professional > that inspired me to work at it. > > I admire the Riv folks and other folks that take film cameras along and > then share their results. > > Paul in Dallas > Amateur who knows what makes for a decent photo but often rushing the > process > and perhaps liking a couple photos I take out of a hundred. > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/701E938F3417AD78.dceb6280-8d9f-4e3f-ba26-cf8401afdf08%40mail.outlook.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/701E938F3417AD78.dceb6280-8d9f-4e3f-ba26-cf8401afdf08%40mail.outlook.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgs-d5%2BjM%2BBcypo1a8j58Y%3DnQ%2BvzamS4Hhv3dMRJmwCs0Q%40mail.gmail.com.
