Comments on: Learning to Shoot – 13 Lucky Photo Tips

By: Miserere

Miserere — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:17:59 +0000

Jay,

Thanks for pointing that out. I’ll go through and make the images clickable, which is our usual policy. I’m not sure what happened with this article

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 23:00:59 +0000

This is good advice.
But why do you post your photos in such a large format (in dimension and size) in the blog and then squeeze them into smaller frames? This causes long loading times and is totally superfluous if you don’t make the photo clickable to see it in its original size. The above bird is half a megabyte large but yet so small. Only when I drag the picture from the webpage onto Xee (or Preview) it fills the whole screen.
Or did you do that intentionally?

By: karenstuebing

karenstuebing — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:52:00 +0000

Awesome how to for beginners or even those with experience. I went from film to a digital camera with a lot of functions to a DSLR with a 18-250mm all purpose lens. I got lazier and lazier shooting. It was like it was too easy. I put a prime lens on my DLSR and got my old original digital camera out because they both make me work for the shot. And I get better photos too as a result.

By: robin

robin — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:43:20 +0000

A very nice comprehensive article.

By: Peter Zack

Peter Zack — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:10:08 +0000

Andrew, thanks for spotting my error. I had it half right It’s been corrected!

By: AndrewG NY

AndrewG NY — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:45:33 +0000

Useful information, nicely put, Peter.

One small comment would be concerning use of shutter-priority AE – as far as I know, nobody calls it Sv–currently unique to Pentax, ‘Sv’ is sensitivity-priority. So probably ‘S’ (Nikon, Sony, Olympus) or ‘Tv’ (Pentax, Canon). Of course you knew that…just a brain fart I’m sure.

By: Peter Zack

Peter Zack — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:04:14 +0000

Glad you are all enjoying these and getting something from them. Dave, the pressure is on! We need a shot of Woody this season!

By: roentarre

roentarre — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:24:31 +0000

This is an excellent post. Reading this matures me one step further!

By: javier L.A.

javier L.A. — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:28:54 +0000

I was ROFL when I read about the woodpecker!…..

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:04:26 +0000

This is a really helpful set of tips, Peter–especially for those of us who may have skipped a step or two in the sheer joy of shooting.

Your woodpecker-obsessed friend and I seem to have a lot in common ;~) That sort of intense focus on a specific subject is a great way to get a real grasp of how various settings and functions affect results (and go beyond casual observation in understanding the subject.)