12-06-2010, 12:34 AM
[quote name='EricDaily' timestamp='1291593650' post='4777']
Would appreciate any gems you might know of.
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Since you're open to the idea of forums, allow me to recommend another approach for learning... interactive learning. Instead of being influenced by composition styles of another party (which is what happens when you read "bible" sites/books of photography), take pictures and post links to them over here along with relevant EXIF data and we can guide you in bettering your technique while still letting you see things the way you want to see.
Camera settings depend on the scenes you're shooting. Even for simple things like landscapes, you can't use the same settings for different shots. In fact, if you have a zoom lens, you might have to learn different settings for different parts of that zoom. There's no site/source out there that can be comprehensive enough to cover such things for all camera, lens, scene combinations. Thankfully, we have the internet forums... and with a bit of caution, you can learn a lot better now than people did in the past using books.
GTW
Would appreciate any gems you might know of.
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Since you're open to the idea of forums, allow me to recommend another approach for learning... interactive learning. Instead of being influenced by composition styles of another party (which is what happens when you read "bible" sites/books of photography), take pictures and post links to them over here along with relevant EXIF data and we can guide you in bettering your technique while still letting you see things the way you want to see.
Camera settings depend on the scenes you're shooting. Even for simple things like landscapes, you can't use the same settings for different shots. In fact, if you have a zoom lens, you might have to learn different settings for different parts of that zoom. There's no site/source out there that can be comprehensive enough to cover such things for all camera, lens, scene combinations. Thankfully, we have the internet forums... and with a bit of caution, you can learn a lot better now than people did in the past using books.
GTW