Repetition
Jul 21, 2019 10:56:21 #
I shoot almost every day especially in warm weather and post several times a day.
When you do the same thing over and over, you get better.
When you do the same thing over and over, you get better.
Jul 21, 2019 11:41:42 #
joer wrote:
I shoot almost every day especially in warm weather and post several times a day.
When you do the same thing over and over, you get better.
When you do the same thing over and over, you get better.
That is the underlying theory of many practices, including medicine.
Jul 21, 2019 12:12:41 #
joer wrote:
I shoot almost every day especially in warm weather and post several times a day.
When you do the same thing over and over, you get better.
When you do the same thing over and over, you get better.
You get even better when you try new things.
Jul 21, 2019 12:39:47 #
JohnSwanda wrote:
You get even better when you try new things.
Yes if you persist.
Jul 21, 2019 13:10:00 #
Jul 21, 2019 14:48:41 #
Not always, but shooting often is required to learn new skills and improve. Getting better in photography requires gaining knowledge and experience and then putting the two together. Some people can do this, others cannot. Some people just take the same style of image every day for the rest of their lives and never improve and some people learn to take better images. Repetition implies doing the exact same thing thing over and over and most likely your photography will not improve over time with simple repetition. Just my thought on it.
Jul 21, 2019 15:09:30 #
Strodav
Loc: Houston, Tx
joer wrote:
I shoot almost every day especially in warm weather and post several times a day.
When you do the same thing over and over, you get better.
When you do the same thing over and over, you get better.
Yes, but only if you practice the right things. You can hit plateaus then it's time to be self critical of your efforts, get feedback from knowledgeable, independent critics and are constantly learning new techniques in both photography and post processing and experimenting.
Jul 21, 2019 17:06:10 #
via the lens wrote:
Not always, but shooting often is required to lear... (show quote)
I agree with that, as worded. But I suspect the OP
probably didn't really choose the best word to say
what he meant. IOW it's a rhetorical problem, not
a problem with the advice/practice that he really
wants to share. "Repetition" is just a faulty choice
of wording.
OTOH, maybe .... just maybe ? .... "repetition" is
NOT such a poor choice language-wise, but more
of a cultural problem in that we tend to impose a
meaning of MINDLESS repetition whenever we
see or hear only "repetition". So, culturally, some
phrase like "persistent practice" might have been
a better choice to express the OP's fine message.
Personally, I'd break the idea of "improvement"
into 2 parts as concerns "repetition". Repetition
can improve technical skills like manual focus or
action panning etc etc while repetition can easily
be disastrous to "artistic vision" and imagination.
.
Jul 21, 2019 17:06:49 #
via the lens wrote:
Not always, but shooting often is required to lear... (show quote)
you beat me to it!!!!
You know what a bad habit is ......constantly doing the same thing - and how annoying that can be..
You learn by adding new knowledge to what you already think you know....and seeing things you never notices or knew as a result. Think about your journeys to work every day...can you remember what was different about it 2 days ago, or last week?
As a child I cycled for miles around the countryside. As a scout and scout leader I walked miles throughout The English Lake District. I loved what I discovered. Much later I studied for a Environmental science and Geography degree. I learned to understand 'what I had been seeing'. Add a camera......and you can see why I love Landscapes and why I try to find images that 'bring alive' the reason why and the causes of the landscapes forms that I visit. The camera simply concentrates and links past learning to the present view. I can explain why I shot it and what was particularly striking or interesting... It deepens my love for 'being in the great outdoors'. (oh, an carrying a camera as an excuse).
Jul 22, 2019 06:01:18 #
Never fear the man who can do a thousand things, but fear the man who does the same thing a thousand time!
Jul 22, 2019 07:01:15 #
billnikon
Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont
joer wrote:
I shoot almost every day especially in warm weather and post several times a day.
When you do the same thing over and over, you get better.
When you do the same thing over and over, you get better.
Practice makes prefect.
Michael Jordan was just OK until he started to practice hours and hours and hours and hours a day on his shooting until he became the player he was.
A basketball coach near our home town used to carve the initials of his players into basketballs. He gave each player his own ball at the beginning of the summer. He wanted each player to have their initials almost gone by the end of summer. You would see his players dribbling around town all summer. He had more state champion teams than any other coach in Pennsylvania high school history.
Jul 22, 2019 07:25:31 #
joer wrote:
I shoot almost every day especially in warm weather and post several times a day.
When you do the same thing over and over, you get better.
When you do the same thing over and over, you get better.
That's the idea - hopefully.
Jul 22, 2019 07:26:24 #
I think it was Hemingway that said “The only good writing, is re-writing.”
The same thing holds true for almost every endeavor, including photography.
The same thing holds true for almost every endeavor, including photography.
Jul 22, 2019 08:11:27 #
Jul 22, 2019 08:13:42 #
Winning formula: Take a lot of pictures. Learn from your mistakes and successes. The craft of photography requires practice over time to improve results -- stating the obvious.
via the lens wrote:
Not always, but shooting often is required to lear... (show quote)
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