Leveling up in photography
Apr. 24th, 2009 10:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mattbellI'm spending a lot of time taking pictures. While I don't feel like I'm getting better, I'm starting to notice a lot of things I didn't before having to do with lighting, composition, framing and other such things. There are also non-useful skills like learning how to hide the dark or glare spots that appear from the scratch on my camera's lens.
It's easy to obsess over getting the perfect shot but I realized that I'm not a photographer on assignment. I don't need a perfect shot of anything in particular. I will see enough interesting things that I should go for the best shot I can at the time and not wait for the lighting/crowd/etc to be perfect. There's always more stuff to see.
Also, if you feel the framing is poor in photos I've been uploading, note that I've prioritized getting stuff up on Flickr for people to see over spending lots of time painstakingly using this slow computer to run GIMP for some cropping and rotating.) Other than that, feedback (good or bad) is very welcome. I want to learn.
It's easy to obsess over getting the perfect shot but I realized that I'm not a photographer on assignment. I don't need a perfect shot of anything in particular. I will see enough interesting things that I should go for the best shot I can at the time and not wait for the lighting/crowd/etc to be perfect. There's always more stuff to see.
