When can I call Myself a Photographer? I get this question quite often and so I’d like to give you a couple of thoughts that might help you know when the time might be, if you’re already there or maybe give you a few things to attain to so you can call yourself a photographer. Notice I didn’t say PRO photographer. I just said photographer. There is a difference. 1. Know your equipment. To many times someone buys a new dSLR camera and wa-lah they are a “photographer”. Sorry but that is not the magic. That’s not how it works. Yet if you have a dSLR and you know how to use it. You know what most all of the buttons can do for you. You understand exposure and how to get a proper exposure. You can shoot in manual mode. Not saying you have to 24/7 but knowing how the ISO, Aperture and Shutter Speed work together to give you full control. Know your camera and your lens! It doesn’t take 2,000 to know your equipment and shoot well. If you have a $500 camera and know how to operate it then you are successful in being a photographer. […]
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My 5 Cents Worth on Why Shooting Manual is Vitally Important
My 5 Cents Worth on Why Shooting Manual is Vitally Important What a title to a blog post, eh? I know, I couldn’t come up with anything better…so I went with it. If there is one thing I could hire out, it would be to come up with names/titles to events and blog posts. I stink at that. Oh well, you’ll get the point of the article here if you bear with me, versus judging me on the title! Let’s dive right in… A little bit of my opinion on why it’s important to learn to shoot in manual mode. Manual mode has a way of scaring people…scaring people so much that they can’t even set the camera on “M”. They freak out…they never get the right picture, it’s always too dark or way to white. They have no clue where to start with “M”…so they simply resort to automatic which is the wimpy and easy way out…or they will try a not-so-wimpy way of Aperture Priority. Are Aperture priority and Automatic bad…not necessarily…but it sure isn’t teaching you much when it comes to the technical side of shooting. All to many times someone that simply owns a dSLR […]