Elliot Dimauro
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Just wondering, is the trial-and-error method the best way to learn photography, is it at least a good way? If not, what is the best way?
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Is this the best way to learn photography?
- Thread starter Elliot Dimauro
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javazombie13
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the best way is to listen to what other photographers have to say,by this I mean read as many books as you can on the subject. just go to your local library and check out their collection. You will gain invaluable information that you can't learn any other place. Also Photography Magazines are great sources of information too.
I Would have to say there is really no error in (freelance) photography. My theory is to take upwards of 100 pictures. Practicing with different ISO Values and F/stop Apertures And shutter speeds. I sometimes will just take pictures all day and maybe come out with 5-6 good ones. I know this is a bit of a faltered style with film because of how many rolls you would have to go through. But for a beginning Digital Photographer I think it works well enough.
Although research works just as well. But you can read every single book and manual on photography in the world. You would never know how to really capture a great image until you have a camera in your hands and you go out and take pictures.
Hope this helps.
Although research works just as well. But you can read every single book and manual on photography in the world. You would never know how to really capture a great image until you have a camera in your hands and you go out and take pictures.
Hope this helps.
Candid Chris
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Different people learn in different ways to do anything.
I once had an employee who could neither read nor write but figured out a way to do his job that used printed material. (photographic memory?)
The end results may not be as interesting as a diary log, but they better look nicer in print.
I once had an employee who could neither read nor write but figured out a way to do his job that used printed material. (photographic memory?)
The end results may not be as interesting as a diary log, but they better look nicer in print.
Seamless_1
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Actually, trial and error is really the only way you learn photography. It is the best, at least good and the worst way to learn photography. Which one it is depends on the context it is occurring in.
In the formal environment, you are learning, through trial and error, the real dimensions of the course material presented to you in a focused and structured way.
In the self-teaching case, it's the only mechanism of learning and, if you are approaching photography somewhat coherently, it is a good way to learn. If you are one of those who are good in the self-teaching situation - you can structure, or adopt a structure, that will build rationally on the growing foundation - it may be the best method.
If you follow some advice and just take lots of pictures randomly without any framework, it's not even a way to learn.
Vance
In the formal environment, you are learning, through trial and error, the real dimensions of the course material presented to you in a focused and structured way.
In the self-teaching case, it's the only mechanism of learning and, if you are approaching photography somewhat coherently, it is a good way to learn. If you are one of those who are good in the self-teaching situation - you can structure, or adopt a structure, that will build rationally on the growing foundation - it may be the best method.
If you follow some advice and just take lots of pictures randomly without any framework, it's not even a way to learn.
Vance