Taking a good picture

[Steve C]

i tried that and i got a resounding NO!!!!!!! i'll take them for you

Well THAT'S not fair... though he probably doesn't know the only way to get good pics is to strap the camera tot eh front of your Vara

[Xander]

i tried that and i got a resounding NO!!!!!!! i'll take them for you

Considering that rig is the same cost as your vara.. i am not really surprised... Chad I would happily lend you Anubis.. but not by DH2x

[z-weiser]

my dads just kitted himself out with one of these very very nice a **** load more than i can run to though

if you are after a DSLR - there are quite a few Canon EOS350Ds onthe second hand market pretty reasonably now that the identical EOS400D is out!

i have the 350 and it's better than i'm ever going to be!

Z

[Steve C]

Considering that rig is the same cost as your vara.. i am not really surprised... Chad I would happily lend you Anubis.. but not by DH2x

how unreasonable you can be Xander

[Cabby]

Children do not learn from what we tell them to do, they learn from what they see us do...

Easier said than done?????????

[Steve C]

Easier said than done?????????

[Chad]

im currently chasing a canon D60 at the mo if i get it i doubt i will ever be better than it

[Slimie]

It's all jewellery boys, it's not what you've got but what you do with it (now, where have I heard that before??!). Great pictures are taken by photographers not by their cameras. A Leica or a Sinar are just a tool for taking pictures and so is every other camera.

Use your eyes and look - really look at what is around you, most people never truly see anything unless it's pointed out to them, which is where the photographer comes into the picture (arf arf!!).

My advice is to look beyond the subject to the background and if that's ok then press the button. Billions of great shots are ruined by innapropriate backgrounds, not just trees growing out of heads but that's an example.

Oh, and learn how to use your camera, it's an extension of you and using it should be as natural as using the TV remote or your motorcycle, although that could be stretching it a bit if you're used to BMUU indicators!!

YMMV!!

-Simon

PS Umm, what do photographers blame for the SNAFU's now that the E6 machine is exempt from blame?

[xrv_jim]

There's some excellent advice in the thread already, all I would add is...

Slow the whole picture taking process down. At Art College I was taught to use a tripod for for most of my shots for this very reason. It encourages you to consider exactly what is in shot.

When I worked as a (press) photographer we used to use the maxim 'film is cheap, missing the shot is expensive'. Once you've realised what the point of your photograph is going to be - shoot the hell out of it!

As has been said, it doesn't matter what camera you've got. I made a trip to Holland with (only) two very low-tech 'pinhole' cameras (home made from old bulk film cannisters) and sold lots of those images.

Finally, there's some excellent photography displayed on this site too!