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Here's a little question for you all to ponder over - what do you feel holds you back in photography? What stops you achieving what you desire from your photography?
Further what steps have you/do you take to overcome the limitations that you see in your own photography (or your own enjoyment of photography)?
For me I'd say two things hold me back;
1) Art - I've never seen myself as overly sciencey nor arty, but for much of the time I leaned closer toward science than I did toward art. So whilst I've worked well on picking up ideas of exposure, composition and creating a pleasing photo artistically speaking is a far harder area for me to work into.
Light studies of composition as well as critique over both my own and others work is slowly training my eye, but I feel I've a lot more to do to get that eye well trained enough to see the composition in the field before I press the shutter - rather than after in the computer.
2) Fieldcraft - or rather my lack of it - another big change is my now needed skill in understanding the outdoors world to a level better than simply strolling though woodland pathways hoping for the wildlife to jump out at me. Still working on correcting this aspect (I mean I've got a hat and all so that got to help right - at some level!)
So there are mine - what's yours?
Further what steps have you/do you take to overcome the limitations that you see in your own photography (or your own enjoyment of photography)?
For me I'd say two things hold me back;
1) Art - I've never seen myself as overly sciencey nor arty, but for much of the time I leaned closer toward science than I did toward art. So whilst I've worked well on picking up ideas of exposure, composition and creating a pleasing photo artistically speaking is a far harder area for me to work into.
Light studies of composition as well as critique over both my own and others work is slowly training my eye, but I feel I've a lot more to do to get that eye well trained enough to see the composition in the field before I press the shutter - rather than after in the computer.
2) Fieldcraft - or rather my lack of it - another big change is my now needed skill in understanding the outdoors world to a level better than simply strolling though woodland pathways hoping for the wildlife to jump out at me. Still working on correcting this aspect (I mean I've got a hat and all so that got to help right - at some level!)
So there are mine - what's yours?