What's the #1 Best Advice You Would Give To Someone New To Photography!

[Rodger]

If you can shoot a running back coming straight at you in crappy light with 3,000 kids clanging cow bells in the stands behind you, weddings will look tame in comparison.

I like this advice.

I particularly like this line haha.

[lcnewkirk]

I'm pretty new (one year) to slr photography too, but I have learned a lot by reading books. I tried to just start shooting, but all I got was garbage. And confused by all the buttons. So...


1. Get a book on the T1i. I have a XS, and Ben Fong wrote a great book on it. It covers every single button and setting, and in English, not owners-manual-poorly-translated-engineer-speek. Without this book, I'd probably still be on auto.


2. "Lightroom 2 for Digital Photographers" by Scott Kelby. After downloading trial versions of the Adobe software, I decided LR2 was for me, and almost immediately got this book. It stays by my computer. Postproduction work can make your photos pretty bad if you don't know what you're doing.


3. "Digital Photography" by Scott Kelby. I borrowed this one, so I'm paraphrasing the title, but it is an awesome book. Now that I'm typing this out, I don't really remember what I learned from it, but I read it at least four times, and really enjoyed it. He has a pretty corny sense of humour, which works for me.


4. Take lots of photos! Move around when you shoot. Move your subject around (if you can). Never take just one photo.


5. Look at other photographers work.Decide what you like, and why, and try to figure out what they did to get that look.


Enjoy!


Lewis