rodgersfoto
Established
Study with very different masters- Ansel Adams, Glen Fishback, and Eva Rubinstein. From Love /respect of the natural world, photographic skills,and human response to ongoing life. Each offered a great deal of personal growth
PMCC
Late adopter.
Eva elicits as well as generates respect and admiration. First met her when she was the campus chaplain's wife. Her subsequent photographic career was regrettably brief, but she remains a great lady full of life. I studied with *her* first mentor.
Finder
Veteran
Only shooting full frame.
kitaanat
kitaanat
I learn much from trial-error with a color reversal film, understand various light situations, the f and distant of flash light and much more.
t.s.k.
Hooked on philm
When photo is a requirement in undergrad, you're kind of forced to learn something along the way. 
Also, having a couple of friends at the time both working as photo assistants swayed me from pursuing a masters in photo.
Why make something so pure and simple so complicated?
Also, having a couple of friends at the time both working as photo assistants swayed me from pursuing a masters in photo.
Why make something so pure and simple so complicated?
kuzano
Veteran
NYI Photography correspondence course...
NYI Photography correspondence course...
Biggest single event involving major movement forward ....
Signed up, did the course and finished it. 27 segments as I recall, send in the assignments. Critiques returned on audio cassette tapes.
Did this in the early 60's
NYI Photography correspondence course...
Biggest single event involving major movement forward ....
Signed up, did the course and finished it. 27 segments as I recall, send in the assignments. Critiques returned on audio cassette tapes.
Did this in the early 60's
pvdhaar
Peter
1. Hammering away at the shutter button..
2. Decide to shoot just for myself, and not to please/impress others..
3. Embrace every form of automation/simplification that lets me concentrate on composition..
2. Decide to shoot just for myself, and not to please/impress others..
3. Embrace every form of automation/simplification that lets me concentrate on composition..
tanel
Established
A Finnish photographer once said, "Taking a bad picture teaches you so much more than taking a good picture."
If I want to take good photographs I need to take bad pictures.
Mistakes and experiences - they are the best teachers one can ever have!
If I want to take good photographs I need to take bad pictures.
Mistakes and experiences - they are the best teachers one can ever have!
braver
Well-known
Reading photography books is really inspiring me at the moment. But what I think shaped me most was art education (I really should take that a bit further), learning to look for shapes, expressions, compositions. It also thought me to evaluate and de-construct art, which really helps learning from work from others and yourself ('why does it work').
And the internet is helping me right now. Taking shots to Flickr and sharing them on forums really force me to pick and edit pictures down to the ones that are really good. And the feedback helps me even more, evaluating the shots as well as the editing ('does that shot really work as well as I thought').
Reading about Winogrand, and hearing him talk (again the internet: Youtube) about photography was also a great help. Shoot relentlessly, always look through the viewfinder to compose, embrace failure, and distance yourself from the shot before judging it.
And the internet is helping me right now. Taking shots to Flickr and sharing them on forums really force me to pick and edit pictures down to the ones that are really good. And the feedback helps me even more, evaluating the shots as well as the editing ('does that shot really work as well as I thought').
Reading about Winogrand, and hearing him talk (again the internet: Youtube) about photography was also a great help. Shoot relentlessly, always look through the viewfinder to compose, embrace failure, and distance yourself from the shot before judging it.
rxmd
May contain traces of nut
Can't say what helped me grow, I don't consider myself particularly grown just yet.
At the moment I'm learning most from a project that involves taking 4x5" colour portraits of people in the street and paying close to $8 per shot in film, development and contacts.
At the moment I'm learning most from a project that involves taking 4x5" colour portraits of people in the street and paying close to $8 per shot in film, development and contacts.
kshapero
South Florida Man
food and fresh air
FS Vontz
Aspirer
Gonna have to say Mitosis
SimonSawSunlight
Simon Fabel
other: not leaving the house without a camera, shooting every single day.
Juan Valdenebro
Truth is beauty
I came to photography gradually: it wasn't a decision... It became a need with time... It happened slowly, for a long time, maybe for twenty years before digital and internet were here, since I was a child. First, alone with books (Ansel Adams series and others) and then, with older friends at high school to learn how to develop and print.
I would say what helped me the most was shooting slides and polas under direct, constant attention and critic from older photographers (teachers) in classes that for seven years included most of the poll's options. Especially interesting and moving, more than theory and practice, were Art History and Photography History.
Anyway, I feel I learnt more than ever while starting to work in photography for money, even if I had already ended my career, and even though I had experience and equipment in all formats and I felt I was ready... I must admit I wasn't ready at all for the pro level... I wasn't bad, but the real photographers' world is tough. And another thought: first I specialized one year in fashion with my Hasselblad and using both my lights and school's studios ones, and then one year in product with large format and another year in Architecture and Interiors, with large format too: preparing for hours one single shot in Product for a perfect, unique slide, tought me to really look at composition in a new and almost obsessive way, and using natural light only -a moving and changing one- without any hurry in Architecture, tought me -about lighting character and metering- a lot more than my year in fashion with lots of sessions with models and different sets of controlled lights!
Photography is a very complex science and art... So deeply subjective and so deeply objective too!
I voted class.
Cheers,
Juan
I would say what helped me the most was shooting slides and polas under direct, constant attention and critic from older photographers (teachers) in classes that for seven years included most of the poll's options. Especially interesting and moving, more than theory and practice, were Art History and Photography History.
Anyway, I feel I learnt more than ever while starting to work in photography for money, even if I had already ended my career, and even though I had experience and equipment in all formats and I felt I was ready... I must admit I wasn't ready at all for the pro level... I wasn't bad, but the real photographers' world is tough. And another thought: first I specialized one year in fashion with my Hasselblad and using both my lights and school's studios ones, and then one year in product with large format and another year in Architecture and Interiors, with large format too: preparing for hours one single shot in Product for a perfect, unique slide, tought me to really look at composition in a new and almost obsessive way, and using natural light only -a moving and changing one- without any hurry in Architecture, tought me -about lighting character and metering- a lot more than my year in fashion with lots of sessions with models and different sets of controlled lights!
Photography is a very complex science and art... So deeply subjective and so deeply objective too!
I voted class.
Cheers,
Juan
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Jinky
Member
I voted other.
For me I think my photography improved immensely when I got an OM4 with a bundled 35mm lens. I'd tried using a 50mm on an OM10 before and couldn't adjust to the focal length. Something about the lens and camera felt right and it was reflected in the pictures I took.
Now, 2 years on, I'm planning to reduce the number of lenses I have so that I have no zoom lenses, I've some great glass but I know that I need to restrict my options to take better pictures.
I've still a lot to learn though!
For me I think my photography improved immensely when I got an OM4 with a bundled 35mm lens. I'd tried using a 50mm on an OM10 before and couldn't adjust to the focal length. Something about the lens and camera felt right and it was reflected in the pictures I took.
Now, 2 years on, I'm planning to reduce the number of lenses I have so that I have no zoom lenses, I've some great glass but I know that I need to restrict my options to take better pictures.
I've still a lot to learn though!
Getting my first Leica helped...as well as classes and looking at the masters.
rodgersfoto
Established
I am not name dropping here
Study with very different masters- Ansel Adams, Glen Fishback, and Eva Rubinstein. From Love /respect of the natural world, photographic skills,and human response to ongoing life. Each offered a great deal of personal growth\
I worked "at' photography for 23 years before meeting and learning from these folks. they accepted me for what I was and helped me to improve. This was at a time -60's- when alternative education was a way to learn. Workshops provided a direct means of education. I went on to photograph and teach_at the college level for 40 years. without these folks and others like them this could not have happened.
Study with very different masters- Ansel Adams, Glen Fishback, and Eva Rubinstein. From Love /respect of the natural world, photographic skills,and human response to ongoing life. Each offered a great deal of personal growth\
I worked "at' photography for 23 years before meeting and learning from these folks. they accepted me for what I was and helped me to improve. This was at a time -60's- when alternative education was a way to learn. Workshops provided a direct means of education. I went on to photograph and teach_at the college level for 40 years. without these folks and others like them this could not have happened.
jmcd
Well-known
I took an "intensive" course from a photographer whose work I admired. We started the week with a view camera and the zone system, viewed copious quantities of great photos in the flesh and in quality books, and by the end of the week I had prints mounted and matted—taking the work from A-Z, or, finish what you start.
flip
良かったね！
Supportive friends.
Posting the results on my walls so that I learn which shots have staying power for me.
Digital (Canon 20D) was great to help me understand many things about DoF and the reciprocity effect in long night exposures.
Living in Japan, where you can blend in anywhere with a camera.
and milk.
Posting the results on my walls so that I learn which shots have staying power for me.
Digital (Canon 20D) was great to help me understand many things about DoF and the reciprocity effect in long night exposures.
Living in Japan, where you can blend in anywhere with a camera.
and milk.
TWoK
Well-known
I cannot blend in anywhere in Japan. Camera or not.