Smartphone Photography Club

#12 88 reasons to love and improve your photography - Part 1

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Identifying other reasons for improving and learning photography may help to realise new motivations to get out there and develop a little each day.

You are a photo enthusiast who loves to capture photos and create your favourite photos. Taking the step to learn photography brings you so much joy, love for life and transferrable skills to other arts and hobbies, even travel.

Photography is therapy and a distraction for many of us in this busy, crazy world we live in. Committing to study photography, you will further love the creative process and your results.

It took me too long to go discuss all 88 reasons identified, so I split the episode to deliver it to you into two parts. In this episode, I discuss each of the first 36 reasons. 

  1. Anyone can learn photography
  2. You can do it anytime, anywhere
  3. Capture a memory
  4. Document the life of your loved ones
  5. Photography preserves memories of lost loved ones
  6. Capture more valuable memories
  7. Preserve the big events
  8. Create more impactful images
  9. Create more engaging images
  10. Create aesthetically pleasing images
  11. Improve your existing photos
  12. Receive feedback on your images
  13. Help others to recover bad photos
  14. Do photoshop edits without the complexity and steep learning curve
  15. See the beauty in everyday
  16. Live in the present
  17. Have fun on your own
  18. Have fun with family and friends
  19. Photography is accessible for people with physical disabilities
  20. Photography is accessible for people with mental illness
  21. Photography is a safe hobby
  22. Photography can be a shared activity with children
  23. Bring you closer to your family and loved ones
  24. Create better family photos than you have
  25. Bond with other photographers
  26. Meet new people
  27. Study the great photographers of our past
  28. Experiment with different genres
  29. See everything you normally overlook in front of you
  30. Notice all the detail
  31. Achieve macro photography on my smartphone
  32. Capture fleeting moments of expressions in children and pets
  33. Improve other art hobbies
  34. Learn photo composition
  35. Photography is subjective
  36. Camera knowledge ensures you don’t miss ‘the decisive moment’

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    - Mike

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    Smartphone Photography ClubBy Mike James