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<blockquote data-quote="Don Kuykendall_RIP" data-source="post: 572690" data-attributes="member: 6277">Books are nice but nothing takes the place of SHOOTING LOTS OF PHOTOS. My mentor/friend that I shoot with all the time assigns photographers for me to follow on Facebook and then makes me critique their photos.&nbsp; It is amazing what this forces you to do. Good, bad and ugly.&nbsp; What it has done for me is to help narrow what style I like for myself.&nbsp; Sort of like ordering Chinese food. 1 from column a 2 from column b and none from column c.&nbsp; Find what you like and then work to find out how to do it and incorporate it into your own shooting. If you do get books then do not read them all at once. By the time you get to the end you have not worked on the beginning and will not remember it. When I was in business selling cameras I would tell people to read the manual three times. Once to just read it through, the second time read it and do each step with the camera in your hand and third time to do it while someone else questioned you on it. I did the same thing in other jobs when I had to train someone.&nbsp; Read, read and do and then teach me how to do it.&nbsp; Once they could teach me then they were ready to do whatever it was I was training them to do. I learn something more about photography each time I go out to help someone else with their shooting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Don Kuykendall_RIP, post: 572690, member: 6277"] Books are nice but nothing takes the place of SHOOTING LOTS OF PHOTOS. My mentor/friend that I shoot with all the time assigns photographers for me to follow on Facebook and then makes me critique their photos. It is amazing what this forces you to do. Good, bad and ugly. What it has done for me is to help narrow what style I like for myself. Sort of like ordering Chinese food. 1 from column a 2 from column b and none from column c. Find what you like and then work to find out how to do it and incorporate it into your own shooting. If you do get books then do not read them all at once. By the time you get to the end you have not worked on the beginning and will not remember it. When I was in business selling cameras I would tell people to read the manual three times. Once to just read it through, the second time read it and do each step with the camera in your hand and third time to do it while someone else questioned you on it. I did the same thing in other jobs when I had to train someone. Read, read and do and then teach me how to do it. Once they could teach me then they were ready to do whatever it was I was training them to do. I learn something more about photography each time I go out to help someone else with their shooting. [/QUOTE]

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