Five Tips for Beginning Photographers

Welcome to episode 19. This week's show takes five topics from Monday's blog post about 101 Simple Photography Secrets for Emerging Photographers. We have five tips for beginning photographers filled with the stuff nobody tells you.

When you start photography, you spend a lot of time learning the technical skills. Most educators teach you technical skills. After a while, you find some soft skills that nobody else seems to discuss.

Well, we're going to talk about it in this show.

As always, you can get the transcript of the show for free.

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PHOTO FLUNKY:  Episode 19

 

Welcome to the Photo Flunky Show, Episode number nineteen.

 

Today’s show:  We reveal five secrets beginning photographers should know.

 

Hi, welcome to the Photo Flunky Show.  I’m William Beem.

 

Lee:         Hi, I’m Lee.

 

William:   This is episode nineteen so you can find show notes available at williambeem.com/episode19.  The show is also available at photoflunky.com if you want to see a list of all the shows together.

 

Today we’re going to be talking about five secrets beginning photographers should know, and this is kind of an add-on to what I had posted earlier this week on 101 Simple Secrets for Emerging Photographers.

 

Let’s start off with one of Lee’s favorites.  Number one: you can still take bad photos with a nice camera.

 

Lee:         And I know because I did it!

 

William:   We all do it, and that’s something to keep in mind.  Just because you’ve got your shiny new nice camera and maybe you’ve stepped up from taking photos with your phone or a point and shoot or something like that and you’ve got your DSLR doesn’t mean that you are guaranteed to have nice photos.  Your odds of taking nice photos are probably much better because you have more control, but the camera itself isn’t what’s going to give you a nice photo out of it.

 

Lee:         No, that’s shocking.  I thought it was quite outrageous.  You spend all this money on a nice camera and then you have to do something to help it.  I mean I expected the good camera would take the good photos.  Well, that wasn’t quite the case.

 

William:   And I’ve tested this. I put my camera down, I told it to go take some photos and it didn’t do a damn thing.

 

Lee:         Stupid camera.

 

William:   I know.  Here’s what we’re trying to get at.  Just because you’ve got a nice camera doesn’t mean that anything has really changed other than that if anything, you have to work harder for the nice pictures because you’...