One Thing

[Bill Pierce]

Here’s a simple one. If you could tell other photographers one thing that you think would be most helpful, what would it be?

I’ll toss in this, albeit it is obviously of more use to young photographers than old ones. File all of your images except the most obvious of discards. Your taste in what is a good picture will change over time. Oh, by the way, make prints of the images you like. Computer programs change, and it’s difficult for a friend or a museum to hang a raw file on a wall.

Your thoughts?

 

[back alley]

an oldie...get closer!

 

[robert blu]

Large or small, digital or wet, organize them in acid free boxes or simple cardboard shoeboxes , it does not matters (of course it does, but not so much). But print, print and than print again some more !
robert

 

[icebear]

Get your exposure right and use proper manual WB (of your choice) in the first place and don't waste to much time on correcting mistakes in post production.

 

[SteveM(PA)]

Try shooting a roll of film. If nothing else, it gives you a mission ... to get out and shoot that roll of film.

 

[rodt16s]

The Rule of Thirds

 

[nikon_sam]

an oldie...get closer!

So true...

My advise would be mostly to film users but the digital could apply this too...
Develop your own film and prints...developing your negs will show you if you're using your camera correctly...printing them will show you if you're developing them properly...good negs make printing easier...
I learn from every roll what I've done right and what I've done wrong...
Camera>>>Negative>>>Print---Print>>>Negative>>>Camera...you can learn in both directions...😀

 

[Vince Lupo]

Don't think too much.

 

[daveleo]

Be very critical when editing your work. Imagine that someone else made the picture - how would feel about it?

 

[cz23]

Know what you deeply value and let that guide your work.

John

 

[thegman]

I'd say shoot what you genuinely like. I love nature, but don't like people that much, so there is no point me going out and shooting street photos of strangers.

Totally agree on making prints, I'm so much happier with my photos when I see them on paper, in frames or albums.

Don't pay much attention to what people think about cameras, just get the ones you like. Some will say you need fast lenses, some will say you need a 'system'. Just get what you like. These are not lifetime commitments or adherence to a religion, just get something you'll enjoy using.

 

[taskoni]

Passion.

Regards,

Boris

 

[Gary Sandhu]

Don't buy too much equipment.

 

[flambeauriver]

If this image were on my wall, could I look at it now and then and still find emotion?

 

[ferider]

Don't hesitate to talk to people.

 

[mugent]

Get yourself a good bag... ;-)

 

[mfunnell]

Of importance in this digital age: it isn't a photograph if it hasn't been printed. Even if it's just a 6x4 in an album (or a shoebox, for that matter).

...Mike

 

[sparrow6224]

Through intense concentration over time, become the absolute master of exposure. It will save you time and spare you many missed photographs, and, as photography is about light and dark, it will take you down the road of understanding light and so make you a greater artist as well.

of the other advice above, get closer and learn to see (life drawing) strike me as the two I'd also endorse as primary.

 

[ruby.monkey]

If you're given a choice between using a Paterson reel and slamming your nuts in a desk drawer, go with the nut-cracking. It's far less painful and frustrating.

 

[chathaway]

slow down a bit...compose, explore...500 files of nothing on a two hour photo excursion is still nothing