Camera & Lack Of Knowledge

Jim K

Folks,
I am one of these unfirtunate people who ,oves the camera but is usless at taking good phohogrpahs. Whether it is a lack of information on the camera itself or just plain lack of information on taking photographs I dont know.
Do Carlow IT have classes on same or is there a camera club in Carlow
:eek:

Crispin

I would give the photographer's eye a read- it takes a very scientific approach to taking photographs by looking at what compositions are pleasing to the eye. Very useful if you don't have the knack of taking good photos.

and there is a carlow camera club:
http://www.irishphoto.ie/clubs/carlow.html

Carrigman

I'm sure a photography course will help you, Jim, but you need to be looking at photographs on an ongoing basis to improve your "eye".

Make sure you buy a good photo magazine each month - "Digital Photo" is very good: lots of excellent tutorials and well written.

Probably the best non-photographic magazine is "National Geographic" - consistently outstanding photography. (The only danger is that it might prompt you to hang up your camera in despair at never being able to achieve that level of expertise).

Look at sites like Flickr and Photosig where ordinary amateurs post their work and receive feedback from other members.

Examine photos that appeal to you and ask yourself how the photographer achieved the results. Try to replicate some of them.

And take plenty of photos. Most of them will be rubbish (this applies to most of us no matter how long we have been doing photography). However, you will find that after a while you be happily surprised at the quality of some of your stuff. Then you will be hooked for life and a sizeable slice of your disposable income will be spent on photographic gear.

CabanSail

Check out Carlow Photographic Society Go along to one of their meetings & see if it suits you. Camera Clubs are a great to help you develop your photography.

Hugh_C

or CRISP? I think there's a digital photography course there.