I often get questions about how I took one picture or another.
Perhaps the most common is this one:
"I'm a beginner, and it would really help me learn if you could tell me
what camera settings you had when you took that picture."
This is, perhaps, the worst possible question a student can ask,
and conversely, it's the most irresponsible one a teacher can answer.
This dispels the old saying that "there is no such thing as a stupid
question." There definitely is such a thing, but it's not because the
student should know the answer to it; it's because the student is looking
for the quick solution to an otherwise trickier problem. Don't look for
the easy way out: learn the craft. And in so doing, you'll end up taking
far better pictures over different situations.
To that end, I am constructing tutorials on an on-going basis covering
various photography techniques. As you can tell by now, I am not a "paint
by the numbers" sort of teacher, that simply instructs students to set
the camera in this way, and you'll get a good picture. Instead, I give
instruction on methods that can be applied using the most basic fundamentals
of photography. I do not teach fundamentals; you should already know how
to push the button and basic functions of your camera. Once you know that,
I pick it up from there.
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