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11-05-2007, 04:09 PM
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Status: Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2007
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I'm a wannabe amateur photographer
I have always been fascinated with photography, but never knew how to get started. I do have the eye for it, but I cannot afford the expensive equipment. I have 2 cheap digital cameras to play around with. Does anyone have suggestions for me? Any good tutorial sites? |
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11-09-2007, 06:07 PM
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Status: Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2007
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the best option is to go on a photography course. If you live in the UK then city & guilds photography courses are very good and are often run in the evenings. As you have digital cameras, you will find a lot of courses geared towards photoshop which is really nothing to do with photography but more about digital imaging. What you really need to learn about is what you are trying to say with your images and how you want to say it. What type of photography you want to pursue, e.g. portraiture, weddings, landscape, advertising, documentary (journalism) etc etc etc etc. The options are endless. But you need a basic grounding in technique and understanding exposure and lighting and very few if any online sites teach you about composition and subject selection. With the advent of digital photography, students seem to miss on these things and jump into playing with digital effects on computers. A traditional course in black and white photography using film would give you the fundamenatals and second hand kit is so cheap and you don't need the best cmaeras or lenses to do this. Don't become an equipment junkie! Its what you have to say combined with your subject selection and composition which are most important. The rest will follow.
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