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By: Brad Mangas

Brad Mangas — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:12:40 +0000

As I have stated before I love this craft. One reason is due to the fact that it allows me time to be by myself. In my own world. I’m kinda that type of person. But, and this is a big But for me, in order to grow and as I stated in the last post comments I must grow as a business person as well. So with that said and with you asking what we going to do to improve ourselves I must, and I will, get out and visit “people”, not places, not scenes to photograph but real living humans, I will “make contact” with my kind! Why? I must, they are potential clients, customers, PR folks. If I am to grow into a financially viable business I have to get out of myself and let the world know about me. It makes me somewhat uncomfortable just saying it. But I know they won’t eat me, so what the heck. As you have pointed out, live is to short, no regrets, if you believe in it, do it. As Andrew Zimmer says on his Travel Channel Show Bizarre Foods, “If it looks good, eat it”!

Thanks again David,

Brad

By: larry

larry — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:20:48 +0000

Your post on Monday hit a blog that I frequent – I came, I saw, and now I’m a reader. Thanks for the message. Keep up the good work.

By: Beth Wold

Beth Wold — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:54:47 +0000

Thanks for this post and for the confessions post!
Twice now I’ve been to possibly once-in-lifetime photo opps with my ISO set too high. Why? Because I’d been shooting low-light previously and forget to change it back the next day. The photos were usable but they would’ve been better at a low ISO. It does make me feel a bit better to hear that I’m not alone in doing this, though.

I used to say I was going to tape a piece of paper to the back of my camera that said “Have you checked your ISO today?” I never actually did it, but I have become much better at checking it. I now check my EV, ISO, battery levels, and CF card before going out. I’m terrified of the idea of getting into the field and not having a CF card with me. I suppose if I have one more incident of high ISO I probably will tape that message to the back of my camera, though!

By: Cory MacNeil

Cory MacNeil — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:48:01 +0000

10 Things I am going to work on

1) Learn how to clean a sensor
2) Practice the C pose and S pose with people
3) Have more courage in asking to take photos of people
4) Stop worrying about the noise of my point and shoot camera
5) Stop ogling new gear at B&H
6) Photograph people I see every day
7) Add key words and descriptions to photos that make the cut in Lightroom
Notice the selection of shutter speed my camera has made after I dial in the apature in Av mode
9) Test my ISO to see at what point grain really does begin to take away from the photos quality
10) Put more people in my photos to tell a story

By: Duncan Fawkes

Duncan Fawkes — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:00:34 +0000

Really enjoyed this and previous post and it’s great to have you back from your travels David!

Things I know I need to improve:
- really think about what I should improve and focus on them. This is a good start I think!
- stop making excuses! The light might not be right now, but it might when I get there. And if it’s not, even a well considered crappy shot is a step closer to photographic nirvana than sitting watching the tellybox.
- be more consistent. Not just in shooting, but in approach. Try to get the peaks and troughs of enthusiasm closer together rather than working myself up to a frenzy one day and burning out for a few more. A constant level will bring greater reward.
- take fewer shots. Stop firing off at every conceivable angle and camera setting in the hope of getting it right. Slow down, think it through and know when to walk away
- devote time to building up photographic contacts, be that flickr, people’s blogs, forums or ‘real’ people Selfishness and wanting to be appreciated and learn without reciprocating is the path to disappointment and frustration.
- stop buying stuff, invest in knowledge. Buy things that give you the required capabilities and work with it. Fussing over the relative sharpness of a 24-105 v 24-70 is inconsequential if the captured concept is a fuzzy mess in the first place.
- in a similar vein, when you buy something, use it! I promise I’ll read all those eBooks, Within the Frame and VisionMongers – and all those other books I bought with good intentions but haven’t ‘found the time for’ (wish I read faster!)
- write less, do more!

Thanks again for a really great blog.

By: Liz Ness

Liz Ness — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:37:53 +0000

LOVE this post and the previous one, too. I totally relate (and not just for photographic art, but for all art). There is the passion and the technique and somewhere in the middle is the voice. How we establish what is important to us personally, is personal and it is the well from which our artistic identity arrives, I think.

Also, I’m new (found my way via the eBooks) and I love your blog — for the writing and the beautiful art!

=) Liz

By: Alana

Alana — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:13:49 +0000

I would be a new reader. And on a scale of 1-10 on how I identify with you it would be an 8. Yes, I’ve washed my CF cards, yes I hardly use my lens caps. Number one on my list for me to grow on is valuing my images. If I don’t, others won’t, and I am feeling the brunt of that happening right now. And maybe I’ll put my lens cap on–or just try to anyway