One Thing

[lawrence]

It's important to learn technique but only up to the point where it's good enough. The great photographers didn't spend most of their time in the darkroom figuring out the difference between developer X and developer Y, they spent it taking photographs. And the curse of all media today is too much post production.

 

[shadowfox]

Develop your sense of quality by seeing *lots* of photos from bad to excellent ones.
Once you have a high enough quality standard, it's just a matter of finding the way to produce, that's the fun part.

 

[Sam Kanga]

Edit, Edit, Edit
(sorry that's 3 things)

Sam

 

[maggieo]

Go to your closest art museum and look, really look, at all the paintings. The things that make a great painting make a great photograph.

 

[akptc]

Invest in a top quality polarizing filter 🙂

 

[Tom Diaz]

I just noticed your thread and was going to say "get closer," but Back Alley replied instantly to that effect.

Really, though, that's what I say most often to my photography students. "Avoid too much foreground" is the corollary.

Tom

PS I do agree with you that, one way or another, one should save and not discard images and/or negatives.

 

[maxmadco]

Concentrate on the photo and not the equipment.

 

[helen.HH]

Keep clicking with a Mindful 'Eye'