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Originally Posted by glassman
I was kinda hoping this wasn't a loaded question. Do my research, practice, practice, then practice some more???????
We have some seriously good picture takers on this here forum....
I think its mostly the lighting i'm strugglin with
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Spend some time reading the Ken Rockwell articles........I bought my first good SLR camera in 1980 and have been dabbling in photography ever since.
Just like anything else it takes desire, time, and money to capture good images.
My recent expenditure was $1,100 for the camera body, $300 for a flash unit, and $2,000 for one new lens and two used lenses on eBay, and another $300 for protective UV filters for all the lenses, battery grip, batteries, and a ultra high speed compact flash card.
I'll shoot one subject 4 to 10 times, sometimes more, using different camera settings on every one to get a good image. Upload those images and inspect on the computer to determine a keeper, then crop and fine tune color, saturation, brightness, shadows, highlights, and contrast. So there's a lot of time spent managing and editing files also.
An old pro photog told me years ago in the film days when I was first interested in photography that the main different between pro's and amateurs is the number of images they take. I still adhere to his advice and I'm still very much an amatuer. But.......the more I practice the luckier I get.
