Friday Photography Tips

(This week’s subject was Jack, my 8 year old Lab/Great Pyrenees.  Can you tell how thrilled he is?)

Last Friday, I asked you all to weigh in on whether you would like me to share some photography tips.  I had a lot of response from reader’s who said they would.   I plan to start sharing some of the things I learn, as I am learning, with you on Friday’s.

This week, I would like to start out by sharing a few of the resources I study to learn more about photography.

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, ShootflyShoot was a great starting point. After sitting down and watching all of the videos in one sitting, I was understanding manual mode.  That afternoon, I jumped up from my computer, put in in manual and haven’t looked back.

Before I watched the ShootflyShoot tutorials, I was lost.  I was really intimidated to even put my camera in manual mode.

I thought I would be trying to juggle composition, ISO, apeture, shutter speed, lighting all at the same time.  I wondered how I was going to handle it all.

You do have to think about all of things when you are shooting, but it is not as difficult as I thought thanks to a good base.  Kevin and Josh really break it down to make manual mode easy to understand.

The second set of tutorials I rely on are on Life with My 3 Boybarians.  Darcy is a professional photographer and graphic designer.  I have been following her tutorials 31 Days to a better photo.  The tutorials are very helpful,  she really breaks it down to make photography concepts easy to understand.

I recently found two websites Cambridge in Colour and  Digital Photography School that have a wealth of free photography tips, and tutorials.  I just started reading them, but I know I am going to be going back often.  I found them through a photography Q & A session on Fly Through Our Window.

I hope this helps to get you pointed in the right direction.  I will share a few more next week.

Happy Weekend!