[SEL] Tulare Pictures

Listerdiesel listerdiesel at gmail.com
Wed Apr 20 09:22:21 PDT 2005


On 4/20/05, Joseph L Betz <jlb94 at juno.com> wrote: 
> 
> Great Pics Pete,
> 
> Why is it that when someone else takes pics - they look great ?
> 
> When I take them - Not so great ?
> 
> Joe "Pip" Betz

 Thanks for the comments, Joe, nice to know that they are looking OK on 
other folk's PC's!
 Pictures you take for yourself are always difficult to grade until you get 
back home and have a look. I have always had a camera around and I think 
that I probably learned about framing a shot and general techniques quite 
early on, before I had an SLR camera. Going digital made it much easier as I 
could look at the shot afterwards and if it was a bit 'wonky' I could 
re-shoot immediately.
 Like welding and other techniques, it is a learning process that you need 
to go through and try to perfect. I am not a professional and my failure 
rate is fairly high, we only use 50% of what we take, but at least we know 
what we are looking for most of the time.

 Get a digital camera and spend a week or so taking shots and evaluate what 
you see and what you shoot, that's the only way to go. Books I don't find to 
be that useful, although in the very early days I did buy one for the Pentax 
we had (and still have) so that I could use it! 

Peter
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