Since I found photography two and a half years ago I have learned different things which I would like to share with you today. These lessons have made me richer and I hope that you will find them refreshing and inspiring on your journey with the camera, too.
1. Never do photography to become a rock-star.
2. Enjoy what you are shooting.
3. Prepare well for your shooting, realizing that your battery isn’t charge when you’re setting up for that sunrise shoot is too late!
4. Always take one warm garment more than you actually need with you
5. Pay attention to your thoughts and emotions while you are shooting
6. Set goals you can achieve
7. Write tips about photography, because writing is also learning
8. Never go shooting without a tripod
9. Be pleased with the little prosperities
10. Build relationships with potential photo buddies
11. Watch the place you want to shoot first with your heart then with the camera
12. Always stay calm
13. Know that you tend to overestimate yourself
14. Perspective is the killer
15. Dedicate yourself to photography, but never browbeat yourself too much
16. Take part in a photography community
Treeklein17. Keep your camera clean
18. Never compare yourself to others in a better or worse context
19. Find your own style of photography
20. Try to compose more and to hit the shutter less
21. Seek out and learn to accept critique on your images
22. Do something different to recover creativity
23. Get inspiration from the work of other photographers
24. Criticize honestly but respectfully
25. Get feedback from your lady
26. Don’t copy other photographer’s style
27. Be bold
28. Take care of the golden ratio
29. 10mm rocks!
30. Take selfportraits
31. Read books about photography
32. To give a landscapephotograph the extra boost, integrate a person (maybe yourself)
33. Every shooting situation is different than you expect
34. Pay attention to s-curves and lines
35. Always shoot in RAW
36. Keep your sensor clean, so you can save some work cleaning your image in post production
37. Discover the things you think are beautiful
Redgreenklein38. It takes time to become a good photographer
39. The best equipment is that what you have now
40. You can’t take photographs of everything
41. Break the rules of photography knowingly, but not your camera ;)
42. Pay attention to the different way that light falls on different parts of your scene
43. The eye moves to the point of contrast
44. Clouds increase the atmosphere of a landscape
45. Start a photoblog
46. Accept praise and say “thank you”
47. ‘Nice Shot’ is not a very useful comment to write
48. ‘Amazing!’ isn’t useful either. Try to describe specifically what you like or don’t like about an image.
49. You are not your camera
50. Ask a question at the end of your comment on a photo to get a ping-pong conversation with the photographer
51. Do a review of your archives on a regular basis, the longer you photograph - the more diamonds are hidden there
52. Always clarify what the eyecatcher (focal point) will be in your image
53. No image is better than a bad one
54. Everyone has to start little
55. Your opinion about photography is important!
56. Leave a funny but thoughtful comment
57. Speak about your experiences with your photo buddies
58. Limit your photograph to the substance
59. Participate in Photocontests
60. Post processing = Optimizing your image to the best result
61. Shoot exposure latitudes as often as possible
Wideklein62. Use photomatix as seldom as possible, HDR’s always have a synthetic flavor
63. Always remember what brought you to photography
64. Never shoot a person who doensn’t want to be photographed
65. Always turn arround, sometimes the better image is behind you
66. It’s who’s behind the camera, not the camera
67. Mistakes are allowed! The more mistakes you make, the more you learn!
68. If you have an idea and immediately you think : No, this is not going to work - Do it anyway. When in doubt - always shoot.
69. Understand and look to your histogramm while shooting. It delivers very important information about your image
70. Know your camera, because searching the menu button in the night is time you don’t want to waste
71. Shoot as often as possible
72. Believe in yourself
73. Don’t be afraid of getting dirty
74. Pay attention to qualitiy in your image
75. Your photographs are a personal map of your psyche
76. Re-check your ISO-Settings. It’s aweful to detect the wrong settings on your screen.
77. Be thankful for long and thoughtful comments on your images
78. Never trust your LCD. Normally it is brighter and sharper as the original image.
79. Provide for enough disc space, because it’s cheap and you will need it.
Autoklein80. Learn to enjoy beautful moments when you don’t have a camera with you.
81. Always arrive at least half an hour earlier before sunrise / sundown, composing in a hurry is a bad thing.
82. Try to amplify your mental and physical limits. Takes some extra shots when you think “it’s enough”
83. Pay attention to structures in the sky and wait until they fit into structures in the foreground
84. Visit the same place as often as possible. Light never shows the same mountain.
85. Print your images in big size. You will love it.
86. Calibrate your monitor. Working with a monitor that is not accurate is like being together with someone you can’t trust. It always ends badly.
87. Don’t think about what others may say about your image. If you like it, it’s worth publishing.
88. Never address reproaches to yourself. Learn from your mistakes and look forward, not backward.
89. Fight your laziness ! Creativitiy comes after discipline.
90. Ask yourself : What do you want to express in your images ?
91. Always try to think outside the box, collect new ideas about photographs you could do and ask yourself : Why not?
92. Search for a mentor.
93. Photography is never a waste of time.
Fogklein94. Every community has it’s downsides. Don’t leave it out of an emotional response.
95. There will always be people who will not like what you are doing.
96. Henri Cartier-Bresson was right when he said that “Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
97. A better camera doesn’t guarantee better images.
98. Always have printing in mind when you postprocess your images.
99. Photography is fair : You gain publicity with the quality of your images. Unless the images are stolen, there is no way of cheating yourself higher.
100. Write a 100 things list
Do you have learned something that I didn’t mention ? I would be glad if you let me know it as a comment, so I can learn from you !
譯文:關於攝影的100條感悟
自從兩年半以前，我就發覺有各式各樣關於攝影的體會值得與大家分享。這些心得讓我受益匪淺，我也希望它們能使大家的攝影之路與眾不同、耳目壹新。
1-永遠不要指望攝影使妳像搖滾明星壹樣耀眼
2-享受自己的作品
3-為拍攝做好準備，在取景時才發現電池不足就太晚了
4-總是帶壹件“多余”的暖和外套
5-在拍攝時註意自己的思想與感情
6-為自己設立切合實際的目標
7-學會寫拍攝便簽，寫就是學習
8-壹定帶著三角架
9-為即使很小的進步而高興
10-和潛在的攝影夥伴建立聯系
11-對於您感興趣的拍攝地點，先用心觀察，然後再用相機
12-時刻保持冷靜
13-要明白自己通常會高估自己
14-透視法則是魔鬼
15-要獻身攝影，卻不要勉強自己
16-加入攝影團體
17-保持相機清潔
18-不論好壞，不要刻意拿自己與別人比較
19-找到自己的風格
20-多些安靜的構思，少按快門
21-學會尋求和接受針對自己作品的批評
22-做些與眾不同的事來恢復創造力
23-從其他攝影師的作品中獲得靈感
24-誠實而又不失敬意地批評別人
25-多關註女士的觀點
26-不要模仿別人的風格
27-要勇敢
28-註意黃金分割
29-10mm 鏡頭十分震撼
30-拍攝自拍像
31-多讀攝影書
32-給壹副風景照增加額外的趣味點：在裏面加入壹個人（比如妳自己）
33-每次拍攝環境都與妳想象的不同
34-註意S-曲線和直方
35-只拍RAW
36-保持感光件清潔，這可以省去很多後期修正
37-發現妳認為美的事物
38-成為出色攝影師需要時間
39-現在妳有的器材就是最好的
40-妳可以拍攝任何東西
41-靈活地打破攝影種種的條框
42-註意光線照射物體不同部分的不同方式
43-人眼通常註意對比反差處
44-雲會提升風光攝影的大氣效果
45-擁有自己的圖片博客
46-接受別人的表揚並說“謝謝”
47-“拍得好”並不是壹句值得寫給別人的話
48-說“太美了”也不行！要具體地說出喜歡或不喜歡的地方
49-妳就是妳，妳不是相機
50-在評價攝影作品之後，以壹個問題來引發與攝影師的互動交流
51-定期回顧妳的現有作品，或許有未發現的寶藏
52-永遠要有明確的焦點
53-寧可不拍，也不敷衍
54-每個人都得從零做起
55-妳對攝影的觀點尤其重要
56-留下愉快而有讓人深思的評論
57-學會與夥伴交流攝影經歷
58-要使自己的作品有所實質
59-參加攝影者的交流
60-後期處理會使妳的作品更接近於最佳狀態
61-盡可能地自己掌控曝光
62-盡量別用Pphotomatix，HDR會使圖片看上去過於傾向於人工痕跡
63-不要忘記是什麽讓妳開始攝影
64-永遠不要拍攝不願被拍攝的人
65-要顧及周圍，有事好東西就在妳身後
66-重要的相機後面的人，不是相機
67-犯錯誤不要緊，越多的錯誤會帶來越多的收獲
68-當妳突發奇想而有猶豫不決時，壹定要試試，壹定要去拍!
69-學會看懂直方圖，那其中蘊含了關於圖片的重要數據
70-多多了解妳的相機，在黑夜裏翻看菜單是十分浪費時間的
71-經常拍攝，越多越好
72-相信自己
73-別怕弄臟衣服
74-註意圖像的品質
75-妳的片子就是妳的心靈地圖
76-重復檢查ISO設置，錯誤的ISO會帶來災難性的後果
77-對於別人詳細有值得深思的評論要心懷感激
78-不要相信相機的LCD，它通常比真實圖片更亮更銳利
79-多準備些磁盤空間，因為妳真的需要而它又十分便宜
80-同樣學會度過沒有相機的美好時光
81-拍攝日出日落要提前半個小時以上，在慌忙中創作不是好事情
82-挑戰自己的智力與體力極限，當妳認為“足夠了”時，不妨再多拍些
83-註意天空的構圖，等待天空與前景構成更好的組合
84-同壹地點也要多去幾次，不同光線會展現不同的景觀
85-以大尺寸擴印妳的作品，妳壹定會喜歡它
86-校準顯示器，使用不準確的顯示器就如同和自己不信任的人壹起工作，結果可想而知
87-不要估計別人的評價，如果妳喜歡，就值得展示給別人
88-不要自責，要從錯誤中學會寫經驗，要向前看，不要留戀過去
89-戰勝妳的惰性，創造來自刻苦的實踐
90-問自己：妳想用圖片表達什麽
91-不要被思想局限，多多了解新的觀點，多對自己說：“為什麽不呢”
92-找個導師
93-攝影從不會浪費時間
94-每個團體都有它的缺點，不要感情用事而退出
95-總會有人對妳所為不屑壹顧
96-布列松說“妳的前10000張圖片是最差的”，他是對的
97-好的相機不能保證好的照片
98-在後期處理時要在心中“預覽”輸出效果
99-攝影是公正的，妳的名聲來自於妳圖片的質量。若想炒作自己，只能去偷走自己的作品
100-為自己寫下100條建議
自己隨便從裏面找點句子把， 這可是我找了好長時間才找到的
呵呵，