Lessons?

[MrKickalot]

Not 100% sure this is the perfect place for this but you all have yet to fail me so here it goes!!

I am very eager to learn but I have no path.... I read, learn and shoot everything ok but I am not that good at any one thing. If I could find a place that had "lessons" and "chapters" maybe I could concentrate on one subject long enough to get better at it!! (I don't have enough disipline to just pick something and work on it!!)

Is there any free or cheap place online that teaches in a class fashion, or a good "classroom" type book that I can learn from?

Thanks,

[Jon]

You might start with the Canon Digital Learning Center (http://www.photoworkshop.com/canon/rick_sammon.html) Digital Rebel tutorials for a broad overview.

[Scottes]

I would suggest a book, particularly one on composition, and try some of the things. "Photographic Composition" by Tom Grill, Mark Scanlon would be a great place to start. Go out and shoot 25 pictures on one compositional idea, like Patterns, or Lines, or such. Go through the book doing this. You may find something that sparks.

Check out this thread (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=41328) and particularly this set of composition lessons (http://photoinf.com/). This is cheaper than the book. :-)


But as to being happy... What do you like? What are you good at? If you like cars, shoot cars. Wildlife? Portraits? Landscapes? You'll take better pictures of things you like...


Or go out and pick 5 different photos by different photographers - ones that made you say "Wow!" Try to duplicate them, or duplicate a part of them. Pick a landscape and a portrait and a street photo and so on.

It might be hard for you to get to someplace to duplicate an Ansel Adams pic, but there must be some beautiful landscape feature near you. What is it about that Famous Landscape Photo that really floors you? The light? The angle? The line leading you from the foreground to background? Try to duplicate it.


But I think the best thing you could do would be to shoot the subjects that you like even when you don't have a camera.

[JMAS]

But I think the best thing you could do would be to shoot the subjects that you like even when you don't have a camera.

Best piece of advise I've heard.

I find myself doing that more and more these days.

And sometimes, you just get a click "that's it!". The after problem is how to achieve capturing the light the way you saw/thought.

Still trying to solve that... :roll: :wink:

Jaime

[barryburgard]

Any book by Bryan Peterson (AMPHOTO) is great in my brief experience. Just read his new Understanding Exposure and it was terrific. Also Betterphoto.com has many on-line learning opportunities.

Barry