Saturday, October 25, 2008

how can you improve your photography

How Can You Improve Your Photography?Writen by Eric Hartwell

Many photographers reach a stage in their hobby where they feel that they are unable to progress further without a bit of help. How can you improve yourself?

There are many ways in which you can gain extra valuable experience, help and advice. The choice will depend on what sort of person you are and the time and effort you are prepared to invest.

-join a camera club

there is bound to be a photography club near you here you will find groups of enthusiasts, events, demonstrations and lectures: a camera club is a great source of help and advice and represents excellent value for money.

-read magazines

there are a multitude of camera magazines available catering for all tastes all of them provide examples of great work, helpful guides, advice and problem pages and often competitions and instructional CDs or DVDs

-take a course

by embarking on a course you are committing yourself to regular assignments for which you can receive valuable feedback and advice this can spur you on to actually taking the plunge to improve your photography

-join an online community

there are many online photographic discussion forums such as the one at The Shutter all of them provide a platform for people to share views, provide helpful advice and even upload images for discussion and viewing

-access relevant websites

there are a multitude of fantastic website on photography and all of them are crammed full of help, advice and other learning resources

There is never a reason to lack inspiration, enthusiasm and progress yin your photography.

Eric Hartwell runs the photography resource site http://www.theshutter.co.uk and the associated discussion forums as well as the regular weblog at http://thephotographysite.blogspot.com.