Photography is easy!!!

[Scott Murray]

You know what, the more I think about taking a photo and the outcome of that photo. Its all the same... No matter what processing you do after the fact you most likely are not likely capturing the moment. As the moment happens right there and then when you are not ready. And my most prominent moment is being stared into the eye from the silver backs wife. As far as I am concerned this is photography! Why? Because I feel the photo. ? You dont? thats fine as it was my moment and thats what I was capturing. Life is about pleasing others through work etc. Every now and then we have to please ourselves... This is why I travel.

This is my life time image.

Why? Well I climbed a mountain for 2 1/2hrs battling poison ivy, I fell before the silver back before this image. I bumped a branch which made this immature male look at me. And I took the photo. I could have froze. I could have had the wrong settings. But all I thought about is ....... Well nothing... al I thought about is being there and I ended up with this shot. This is why I take photos. And people can say that I do it wrong or not their way, well fine I am me and you are you. Good luck

Do what you love and it will all fall into place.

 

[mikew_RIP]

Lovely shot Scott,similar to my thoughts on bird photography when viewing the most common bird through the camera it should still give you the pleasure it did the first time,when it doesn't i will sell my gear.

 

[RockyNH_RIP]

Superb.... not much else to say..

Pat in GA

 

[Scott Murray]

Lovely shot Scott,similar to my thoughts on bird photography when viewing the most common bird through the camera it should still give you the pleasure it did the first time,when it doesn't i will sell my gear.

NO do not blame the gear, get out and try harder

 

[Scott Murray]

Superb.... not much else to say..

Pat in GA

This is not about my photo, it is about getting out and getting yours.

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

Beautiful shot. I have always said that we need to let our cameras do the work they are designed for so that it lets us have the freedom to get the shots like yours here. I just enjoy getting out and clicking the shutter button with the hopes that I get that one in a thousand shot.

 

[Scott Murray]

Beautiful shot. I have always said that we need to let our cameras do the work they are designed for so that it lets us have the freedom to get the shots like yours here. I just enjoy getting out and clicking the shutter button with the hopes that I get that one in a thousand shot.

Don the cameras are our tool and what we do with them is our palette and brush. We create what others see and what we want them to see.

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

Don the cameras are our tool and what we do with them is our palette and brush. We create what others see and what we want them to see.

My original mentor and instructor in photography 35+ years ago always said. We have to learn our craft before we can learn our art.

I know what my camera can do and I use all the modes on it at one time or another. If program mode works in the setting I am in that is where I leave it. I can preset the lowest shutter speed in the setting and auto ISO takes care of the rest. That way when I trip and fall in front of a silver back gorilla I only have to raise my camera and push the back button focus button and fire away. I don't have to think about it. I can not count the number of times I see something out of the corner of my eye and barely have time to turn and fire. That is not the time to have to change the shutter speed, set the aperture and think "What ISO do I need to use here?" The only mode I never use is "Auto"

 

[Scott Murray]

My original mentor and instructor in photography 35+ years ago always said. We have to learn our craft before we can learn our art.

I know what my camera can do and I use all the modes on it at one time or another. If program mode works in the setting I am in that is where I leave it. I can preset the lowest shutter speed in the setting and auto ISO takes care of the rest. That way when I trip and fall in front of a silver back gorilla I only have to raise my camera and push the back button focus button and fire away. I don't have to think about it. I can not count the number of times I see something out of the corner of my eye and barely have time to turn and fire. That is not the time to have to change the shutter speed, set the aperture and think "What ISO do I need to use here?" The only mode I never use is "Auto"

Don there is one thing you are lacking... IT is what you can do for your camera, as I say this is a tool and we all have our differences. It is not what your camera can do but what you can do with that camera. That is life, full of challenges. And none pre-planned

 

[mikew_RIP]

NO do not blame the gear, get out and try harder

Think you misunderstood,ime talking the excitement i get when a bird snaps into focus no matter whether i have photographed it once or a thousand times,when that connection with the subject goes i will sell up,nothing to do with good or bad results.