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When did you start becoming happier with your photography?
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<blockquote data-quote="WayneF" data-source="post: 380945" data-attributes="member: 12496"><p>I doubt it is a response that you seek, or even about what you asked, but of course camera skills, and ability to select the scene and situation, and composition, etc, are all certainly important. Things to be learned. Practice, practice, practice. As they say, the easy way is to stand in front of beautiful things. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>My experience was doing dark room work many many many years ago. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> So, I have had time to acquire a thought or two. Which really does not happen naturally or automatically. We can spend decades as a beginner. Instead, to learn, we have to work at it, specifically to THINK about what we are doing - and to learn to look and SEE what we are doing. But my point, then, as now, we also need a certain amount of output control, to "package" the picture the right way... to get it to the viewing stage.</p><p></p><p>And for me, digital was a new day that brought in tremendous advantage... so easy, so fast, see the picture in the camera at the scene, now see what you got, create what you want to see, and no darkroom needed. Art is of course still art (and quite difficult for most), but the mechanics are almost trivial now.</p><p></p><p>However, now we also need computer skills... we need a bit of editor work, probably Lightroom and Raw today, to be able to get the final product we want. I don't mean "EDIT", nothing remotely drastic or Photoshopped... I mean just the basic ability to easily correct white balance and exposure, to create a decent picture, and to output the right file for the specific use. Understanding pixels, and pixels per inch, and white balance, and such things. It should all be second nature.</p><p></p><p>But it definitely is a final step, and it worries me that there are many that will drastically avoid any such computer job that only takes others maybe 60 seconds to make it perfect. Learn to be a 60 second guy. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WayneF, post: 380945, member: 12496"] I doubt it is a response that you seek, or even about what you asked, but of course camera skills, and ability to select the scene and situation, and composition, etc, are all certainly important. Things to be learned. Practice, practice, practice. As they say, the easy way is to stand in front of beautiful things. :) My experience was doing dark room work many many many years ago. :) So, I have had time to acquire a thought or two. Which really does not happen naturally or automatically. We can spend decades as a beginner. Instead, to learn, we have to work at it, specifically to THINK about what we are doing - and to learn to look and SEE what we are doing. But my point, then, as now, we also need a certain amount of output control, to "package" the picture the right way... to get it to the viewing stage. And for me, digital was a new day that brought in tremendous advantage... so easy, so fast, see the picture in the camera at the scene, now see what you got, create what you want to see, and no darkroom needed. Art is of course still art (and quite difficult for most), but the mechanics are almost trivial now. However, now we also need computer skills... we need a bit of editor work, probably Lightroom and Raw today, to be able to get the final product we want. I don't mean "EDIT", nothing remotely drastic or Photoshopped... I mean just the basic ability to easily correct white balance and exposure, to create a decent picture, and to output the right file for the specific use. Understanding pixels, and pixels per inch, and white balance, and such things. It should all be second nature. But it definitely is a final step, and it worries me that there are many that will drastically avoid any such computer job that only takes others maybe 60 seconds to make it perfect. Learn to be a 60 second guy. :) [/QUOTE]
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