| | To all these amateur Xangans out there, your photography sucks. And yes, mines probably does too.
Newbies,
you guys should spend more time taking pictures and learning about
general photography. Instead of taking a few pictures and expecting
your miracle digicam to take care of everything for you. Alot of people
asked (before I got my FZ-15), "what camera do you use?" or "wow, how
do you take such shots?" I'll be honest with you, I had a simple point
& shoot camera (Canon S230) and took hours fiddling with it. In
order to get that "great" shot, one has to take multiples (ah, the
wonders of digital!).
This is not fair to the camera, and I'm
sorry for the newbies who come to me and comment or AIM, asking me "how
do I take better shots?" and feel like a camera is a gift from the Gods
and that you can take pics that no other camera can compare to.
Wrong. Its just a camera at the end.
Using
techniques to improve your shoot is what matters. How in the world have
we taken pics before the digital? Practice, test, practice, test.
I notice a lot of newbies take 100 first pics and then complaining that the pics is not up to par with what they expected.
Newbies 101.
Best
advice of all. Back track on forums, even if you have to go to the very
very first post of a forum. Also, don't forget google.
1) Take it out of the Box and kiss the camera gently.
2) Take the manual out of the box and caress it.
3) Read the manual as you play with the camera and stop kissing at this moment by now.
4)
As you get familiar with the camera you will get even more confused by
new words such as ISO, APERTURE, SHUTTER SPEEDS, DOF, FOB, SOB, and so
on.
5) Now is the time to learn about new words in your
vocabulary by using google and searching forums. It takes about 1000000
longer to learn if you keep on asking questions in any forum.
6) Take some more shots.
7) Learn about general photography
 Take some more shots
9) Learn about general photography
10) Take some more shots
11) Learn more about general photography.
12)
About now you probably should know enough to answer some of the
questions in your mind, and its time to learn about enhancing your
photographs on the computer.
13) Take some more shots
14) Learn about digital enhancing on Photoshop or whatever program you might use.
15) Shots
16) Photoshop
17) Shots
18) Photoshop.
19)
Show of your pics to family, mistress, ex girlfriend, minister,
policeman, senator, or general human beings..and of course Xangans.
I
have used this method and never once asked a question. Actually, I
don't think I have ever brought up a question (unless you talk about my
opinions on different cameras).
I care about you newbies and
wish you guys the best. I can consider myself still a newbie but you
would never know by the pics that I take by taking my time with a
camera.
Oh, by the way, it took my about one month to figure out
aperture so I know how confused some of you guys can get. It's been two
years since I've touched my first digital camera, and I still have a
long way to go.
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