{"id":2747,"date":"2009-05-23T21:35:06","date_gmt":"2009-05-23T19:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ylovephoto.com\/en\/?p=2747"},"modified":"2010-11-23T15:19:22","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T13:19:22","slug":"5-lessons-for-photo-self-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/2009\/05\/23\/5-lessons-for-photo-self-improvement\/","title":{"rendered":"5 lessons for photo self-improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After all, if you come here, you must be interested in photography. It is quite possible that -like me- you want to improve your day-to-day routine and become a better photographer. Don&#8217;t believe that you must be born with the photographer&#8217;s gene. It&#8217;s something that you grow into.<\/p>\n<div class=\"right45_box\"><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/92163630@N00\/3513903094\/\" title=\"Swing time\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3663\/3513903094_d7f3782533_m.jpg\" alt=\"Swing time\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\" title=\"Attribution License\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ylovephoto.com\/fr\/wp-content\/plugins\/photo-dropper\/images\/cc.png\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" border=\"0\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" align=\"absmiddle\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photodropper.com\/photos\/\" target=\"_blank\">photo<\/a> credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/92163630@N00\/3513903094\/\" title=\"Dave-F almost retired\" target=\"_blank\">Dave-F almost retired<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<\/center><\/div>\n<p>Here are my rules to photography self-improvement:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Think about it permanently.<\/strong> You must start seeing the world with a photographic eye, look for, then find photos anywhere you go (with or without a camera): while driving a car, on the highway, in a small street, in the subway, in a family reunion, in the city, in the country, in the zoos, at work, in the plant, etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Experiment.<\/strong> There are millions of specific photo techniques. The digital cameras allow us to try anything without any kind of expense. You must try and try again: backlight, high-angle shots, low-angle shots, panorama, macro, speed, flash, etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pratice.<\/strong> You must shoot a lot and check the results continuously to see what works and what does not. Also, shooting a lot is a good way to learn the inner operation of your photo camera. The first time you drive a car, it&#8217;s a bit hard&#8230; then it grows on you. And you forget about the moves and stop thinking about it. It&#8217;s only then that you can do whatever you want. When I will handle my camera with my eyes closed, I will botch less pictures for my slow reaction.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Push the camera aside.<\/strong> Soemtimes an empty battery, a forgotten camera will allow you to shoot pictures in your head only. No technical constraint: Look.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Never let it go.<\/strong> Endurance is needed to keep going. Never despair. Keep shooting images. It won&#8217;t come in a week.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Finally, when you get this level, what will be left? Profit (or not) from your inner photographic self: There are some &#8220;natural-born photographers&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After all, if you come here, you must be interested in photography. It is quite possible that -like me- you want to improve your day-to-day routine and become a better photographer. Don&#8217;t believe that you must be born with the photographer&#8217;s gene. It&#8217;s something that you grow into. photo credit: Dave-F almost retired Here are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[196,458],"class_list":["post-2747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shoot","tag-tip","tag-y-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}