Photography

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Letter to Brenton, If you want to become a photographer. There was no time frame to respond so no problem......... OK, I guess there are a few things to think about regarding a life as a photographer. Are you motivated by making money? If so this could be a difficult path and a long one. It's not that you can't make substantial amounts of cash in the business but you'll have to run it as a business and not as a hobby, if you take my meaning. Also there are a lot of start up costs in photography, even with digital, and that's an on going process for a long time. As you get different assignments requiring different approaches you end up purchasing additional equipment. That will last a long time if you go into the commercial fields. OK, besides the business of photography, there's the real reason why you're thinking "Is this the career for me?" So I take it that you visualize and most of how you relate to the world and others is foremost through your eyes? That's a basic requirement in my mind. I've know other photographers who are not predominately visual that were successful, but why do something that doesn't come naturally? Anyway, how to improve your abilities as a photographer? Well I used to teach photography at university level, part time, mostly because I believe that it is important to pass on the knowledge, and also to improve oneself as there's nothing like teaching a subject to really learn what that subject is all about. Well, my first question for the class was " Do you want to know the one secret on to how to become a great photographer?" The class would go quite still, hands would go up and everybody would sit in anticipation of the answer.................. The answer Brenton is....... You always carry a point and shoot, 24/7, everywhere you go, always! The reason is that if you always have a camera with you, you will always look at the world around you as a photographer. Having an instrument to capture what you see changes you, changes how you interpret the visual information coming in. You see differently, and that's what photographers do, they see the world around them differently for everybody else. Something like a writer who listens to words and sentences and how they connect together, or a musician and the sound and silences between. Photography depends of light and shadow; My recommendation is to start looking at the shadows surrounding objects. Well hope that my insight helps.... By the way, a lot of budding photographers talk a lot about their equipment, their lenses, etc..................... It is important to understand the instruments you are using, but for me it has always been the image. So, with some exceptions, talk and relate to other photographers on the work and not the tools. All the Best to you in your endeavor and most of all enjoy, enjoy the world of sight and the blessings that seeing can provide. Anthony.