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I was thinking about this last night and decided to write a Blog on this, it's funny how we all start out taking pictures of anything and everything with our cameras and it doesn't matter what it is when we first start out. We just want to push that shutter button get home to see our images with all the flaws with the hopes of nailing a picture or 2 even with the camera in auto mode. I know I've been there and done that, and now I watch Lynn doing the same thing that I have done many years ago, and this was my thought that I had last night while going to bed and it's strange how these things come to mind.

I watched Lynn out in the field shoot birds with their backs and heads facing away from the camera, or birds behind a bush and asked her why she would bother with these types of shots and she replied because it's there. I told her that she needed to pick and choose her subjects, but than I needed to remind myself that I did the same thing as well. Since than she has become better at this and is more selective with her images and is learning more all the time about her camera and the settings. The one thing when I started out was I was all on my own, and learning as I went, the good thing is that I can pass along this to Lynn.

So you get your first camera, set it in auto mode and start shooting everything in sight, and you start to view the images you had taken over time, and all of a sudden you just want to learn more and more, so you read magazines and get onto the Internet for your thirst of knowledge about photography. Then you read the camera manual and take it out of auto mode, and switch from JPEG to RAW mode. You go out and shoot more and more again come home and view the images, get on the Internet and learn about processing your images this time. You have just caught the Photography Bug.

After some time at going out and taking pictures you have discovered what you like to photograph best, may it be people, buildings, landscape, nature, macro etc... You concentrate more in that type of photography and want to push the envelope and get better each time out and will search to gain more knowledge in forum areas that meet our needs.

It is strange how our passion for one type of photography begins, and yet there is always that thirst to know more about it and one thing about photography is, that it's never ending. Each and every day we go out there is a chance to learn something new every time out in the field. Weather from a friend, or someone you meet in the field and talk photography or that you see some one starting out and throw some advice to them I guess you call this Paying It Foreword remember we where once starting out too.

I can tell you this, when I started out and seen photographers in the field, some are willing to help you, and others will not. I once asked for help when I got my Canon 1D-MKIII for settings to use, and was told go get this PDF file from the Internet, but did not tell me I had to pay for the settings for the camera. I found that I was used in order for them to capture the best image and I got nothing out of it that day. Even before this when I first started out in Digital Photography and got on some sites it was so hard to get people to share information to you. That is why even today, I'm willing to share information and my knoweldge to others and don't hold back and that is why I run a Forum as well to share my passion with others about photography and to help out those that are new to all this. That is why I mentioned "Pay It Foreword", it makes you feel good first of all and second you are sharing part of your photograhy skills with someone starting out and that is a good thing.

Dennis
icurdigital.com