Have You Taken The Best Foto You're Ever Going To Take In Your Lifetime Yet?!
Dec 14, 2017 19:17:35 #
I’ve only been here a month or so, but quickly realized ChrisT likes to.....type.
As for my best picture...absolutely not. But I did sleep in a Holiday Inn Express last night.
Oh wait, no I didn’t.
As for my best picture...absolutely not. But I did sleep in a Holiday Inn Express last night.
Oh wait, no I didn’t.
Dec 14, 2017 19:28:41 #
With every photo I take I hope to improve with the next one. I keep learning from the experience of my last photos. So I guess that the best photo I will ever take will be in the last days of my life.
Dec 14, 2017 19:44:58 #
DebAnn wrote:
You should know that you don't need a top-end camera to take a great photo. You may take a technically OK photo, but the great part comes from the photographer's eye and creativity.
Deb, let me just say that I shoot some sports professionally.
And when doing so I rarely see less than a Canon 1Dx out there and only big white lenses. If the lens is not white it's usually a 24-105 or similar zoom L lens. Occasionally is see a Nikon and have NEVER seen a Mirrorless.
I agree, you don't need a top of the line camera but pros have to assume that every shot they take might be their best shot so the IQ to publish always has to be there.
So maybe it's just habit but if I own a good camera and a good camera from 10 years ago, I personally would NEVER take out the old camera just because I loved it 10 years ago! Just me
SS
Dec 14, 2017 20:02:16 #
SharpShooter wrote:
Deb, let me just say that I shoot some sports prof... (show quote)
On the other side of the coin, there are photos out there that were taken 10 or 20 or more years ago that are better than most afterwards.
Also the point you brought up is very specific.
Kind of like saying that those lenses you mentioned at sport events would be useless trying to take ultra wide landscape shots. Plus, those sport shooters are not hanging out on UHH. You are talking to the general public.
Dec 14, 2017 20:36:30 #
From my experience, being at the right place, the right time, the right light, generally produces some of my Best photographs. Having the best equipment is not necessarily the key. Does it help, absolutely, but not required. Photography is like fishing, you have to work it, to produce, some days suck, while others are great. With each trip, your learn new locations, practice better techniques, you get connected. I hope I haven't taken my best shot yet, I know I'm not done trying to connect.....
Dec 14, 2017 21:02:48 #
Dec 14, 2017 22:09:11 #
Dec 15, 2017 03:51:51 #
I have taken a few pretty good photos and many many not so good, but I think that the next photo I take will be a good one and the next hopefully a better one, so no I do not think I have shot the best photo I will ever shoot hopefully that will come with many more good and not so good shots and will sure have fun trying to create the best one.
SharpShooter wrote:
Have you taken the best foto you're ever going to ... (show quote)
Dec 15, 2017 04:20:02 #
I have taken a lot of photos in my time and every time I get that one photo that turned out great will be my favorite photo of all time; till the next one come around and that will be my favorite of all time till the next one. Something tells me I will not have a lifetime favorite. If I will, I have not found it yet.
Dec 15, 2017 09:52:14 #
Tomcat5133
Loc: Gladwyne PA
I think the photos I most enjoy is inventing something graphic and events that happen that tell a story.
I was in italy and shot a B&W of the tile table on the deck. One of my favorites. While shooting shots for locations
when I was producing and staging large corp. meetings I would shoot graphics and scenics in a place like Puerto Rico.
Let's face it shooters that get to travel for work or leisure have great opportunities to get unique images.
Years ago I was a guest on a set in NY where they were shooting a movie with Frank Sinatra. I go a slightly blurred
shot of Frank smiling and love the fact I have it.
I think the best shot is your next one.
I was in italy and shot a B&W of the tile table on the deck. One of my favorites. While shooting shots for locations
when I was producing and staging large corp. meetings I would shoot graphics and scenics in a place like Puerto Rico.
Let's face it shooters that get to travel for work or leisure have great opportunities to get unique images.
Years ago I was a guest on a set in NY where they were shooting a movie with Frank Sinatra. I go a slightly blurred
shot of Frank smiling and love the fact I have it.
I think the best shot is your next one.
Dec 15, 2017 10:58:07 #
SharpShooter wrote:
....When I go out to shoot, I go out to take the BEST pics I can possibly get and treat each one like it's going to be my best ever!....
That's a sound philosophy. Professionals put themselves under that sort of self-imposed pressure through necessity - hobbyists not so much. But we should do, because it greatly increases our chances of getting the more rewarding sort of shot. There may be some of us who see photography merely as something to occupy ourselves with in our spare time, but to increase our chances of getting something special we need to be driven by the desire for the rewards of success.
Optimising our chances of success will typically involve forethought and planning followed by a willingness to put in the required effort. Some people are naturally pre-disposed to making that kind of effort, but the rest of us need motivation, and that's exactly what we get when we believe that our next shot is a possible best-ever.
Dec 15, 2017 11:15:43 #
SharpShooter wrote:
Have you taken the best foto you're ever going to ... (show quote)
No, I will take it tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow or some other day
What I am shooting it with is a tricky question, I think I will find the right gear when the day comes Dec 22, 2017 17:57:05 #
CyberDave
Loc: Pennsylvania
jerryc41 wrote:
I certainly hope so! I'd hate to think that I have to keep trying to get a good shot. I just like to relax and shoot. What I get is what I get. I don't compete with myself because I know I would always win/lose.
Hear ye, hear ye!!!!> Now, 'jerryc41'~ definitely has the correct mindset!!!:>
CyberDave
Dec 22, 2017 19:55:02 #
Having thought about this over the past week, I realize there is a basic question - how do I rank pictures - how do I list them from worst to best?? Nearing the end of my project to scan all my old media, I realize that the ranking I use now is not what I would have used 25 years ago.
If you want to reply, then register here. Registration is free and your account is created instantly, so you can post right away.