*Steal from Kaila . . . these 50 tips can help you in photography ;)
50 Tips about Photography
(c) Art for Teens
1. Never do photography to become popular.
2. Enjoy what you are shooting.
3. Prepare well for your shooting.
4. Pay attention to your thoughts and emotions while you are shooting.
5. Set goals you can achieve.
6. Watch the place you want to shoot first with your heart then with the camera.
7. Always stay calm.
8. Know that you tend to overestimate yourself.
9. Dedicate yourself to photography, but never browbeat yourself too much.
10. Keep your camera clean.
11. Never compare yourself to others in a better or worse context.
12. Find your own style of photography.
13. Seek out and learn to accept critique on your images.
14. Do something different to recover creativity.
15. Get inspiration from the work of other photographers.
16. Criticize honestly but respectfully.
17. Don't copy other photographer's style.
18. Read books about photography.
19. Every shooting situation is different than you expect.
20. Keep your sensor clean, so you can save some work cleaning your image in post production.
21. Discover the things you think are beautiful.
22. It takes time to become a good photographer.
23. The best equipment is that what you have now.
24. You can't take photographs of everything.
25. Everyone has to start little.
26. Your opinion about photography is important!
27. Speak about your experiences with your photo buddies.
28. Limit your photograph to the substance.
29. Always remember what brought you to photography.
30. Never shoot a person who doesn't want to be photographed.
31. Always turn around, sometimes the better image is behind you.
32. It's who's behind the camera, not the camera.
33. Mistakes are allowed! The more mistakes you make, the more you learn!
34. Know your camera, because searching the menu button in the night is time you don't want to
waste.
35. Shoot as often as possible.
36. Believe in yourself.
37. Never trust your LCD. Normally it is brighter and sharper as the original image.
38. Learn to enjoy beautiful moments when you don't have a camera with you.
39. Pay attention to structures in the sky and wait until they fit into structures in the foreground.
40. Print your images in big size. You will love it.
41. Calibrate your monitor. Working with a monitor that is not accurate is like being together with
someone you can't trust. It always ends badly.
42. Don't think about what others may say about your image. If you like it, it's worth publishing.
43. Fight your laziness ! Creativity comes after discipline.
44. Ask yourself : What do you want to express in your images ?
45. Always try to think outside the box, collect new ideas about photographs you could do and ask
yourself : Why not?
46. Search for a mentor.
47. Photography is never a waste of time.
48. A better camera doesn't guarantee better images.
49. Have fun!
50. Love what you are doing
After all, it's not in the camera, but it is in the person using that camera ;)
(And speaking of photography, I better get my mind to think of new ideas :D :D)
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