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Nov 12, 2019 18:29:59   #
CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City
 
The master has deleted more images than the beginner has ever taken.

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Nov 12, 2019 20:19:20   #
aellman Loc: Boston MA
 
par4fore wrote:
GOD BLESS OUR VETS!

40 years of shooting, some photography rules I made for myself.

If you want to improve your photography you must read and practice.

If you want to be thought of as a good photographer do not ever let anyone see your bad photos.

Don’t display 5-10 photos of the same subject from different angles, pick the one you like best and show that one.

The best HDR images do not look like HDR images.

If the eyes are not in focus then the photo is not in focus.

If you can’t get out to shoot then shoot what’s around you, if you look hard enough you will find something.

Less is more, go out with one prime lens (any focal length) and work on your creativity.

On vacation, I bring a point and shoot with a zoom for documentation and a fixed lens camera for art.

One in a thousand is hopefully worth printing and hanging.

To each their own.

Thanks for looking.
GOD BLESS OUR VETS! br br 40 years of shooting, s... (show quote)


Good thoughts, but I strive for a better score than 1
in 1000. If that was the best I could do, I would stab myself. >Alan

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Nov 12, 2019 20:20:27   #
Bluefish Loc: Berks County, PA
 
Excellent Par4fore. Thank you for sharing.

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Nov 12, 2019 21:39:44   #
cambriaman Loc: Central CA Coast
 
It looks like you have figured out the important stuff! Keep on shooting! The only way to improve.

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Nov 12, 2019 22:28:28   #
DaveyDitzer Loc: Western PA
 
Don’t display 5-10 photos of the same subject from different angles, pick the one you like best and show that one.

Hi Par4fore,
This one rings home. When I worked in an American coatings group that was a German subsidiary, we used to get these wonderful coated panels that we could never reproduce. We later found out that they would coat a large panel and cut out the small section that was darn near perfect. We called these "German samples"!

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Nov 13, 2019 06:05:38   #
Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York
 
par4fore wrote:
GOD BLESS OUR VETS!

40 years of shooting, some photography rules I made for myself.

If you want to improve your photography you must read and practice.

If you want to be thought of as a good photographer do not ever let anyone see your bad photos.

Don’t display 5-10 photos of the same subject from different angles, pick the one you like best and show that one.

The best HDR images do not look like HDR images.

If the eyes are not in focus then the photo is not in focus.

If you can’t get out to shoot then shoot what’s around you, if you look hard enough you will find something.

Less is more, go out with one prime lens (any focal length) and work on your creativity.

On vacation, I bring a point and shoot with a zoom for documentation and a fixed lens camera for art.

One in a thousand is hopefully worth printing and hanging.

To each their own.

Thanks for looking.
GOD BLESS OUR VETS! br br 40 years of shooting, s... (show quote)


This is a nice selection of rules for us.
I would like to add the following quote (updated for modern times.)




LIFE IS LIKE PHOTOGRAPHY
FOCUS ON THE IMPORTANT THINGS
CAPTURE THE GOOD TIMES
DEVELOP FROM THE NEGATIVES
KEEP LOOKING AROUND
IN THE VIEW FINDER AND
IF THINGS DON'T TURN OUT THE WAY YOU THOUGHT THEY WOULD
TAKE ANOTHER SHOT

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Nov 13, 2019 06:12:57   #
par4fore Loc: Bay Shore N.Y.
 
Thanks for all the nice comments and additional suggestions everyone.

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Nov 13, 2019 19:34:31   #
Bubalola Loc: Big Apple, NY
 
Curmudgeon wrote:
I don't shoot as many pictures as a lot of you do about 100-200 is my limit. My Philosophy: Don't Delete Anything. Set up an external hard drive, if you are really concerned about someone seeing your culls, password protect the drive. The way software is progressing, at least for us amateurs, they will become keepers, some of them may be now. If not, some of my ugliest shots have made interesting textures and backgrounds. JMHO.


Totally agree!🤝

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