~ photography is an amazing hobby. over the years ...

2011-08-07T03:28:19.967-07:00

~ photography is an amazing hobby. over the years it has exceedingly cut down the possibility to live out of it due to the advent of digital photography, as now anybody can be a photographer. nevertheless, i strive to live from this profession.

i have been doing photography for almost twenty years but still have not studied the technical aspects properly. i have tried to understand what is a focal length or the f-stop or why a lens is called so and so mm (such as 24mm or 135mm). my efforts to study them didn't work out for me as i have always failed in mathematics ;)

however, i understand how and what a lens does or which lens to use for a particular picture, etc :) and i can see right way at what iso, aperture, and shutter speed i should use for a picture i would like to have. and whether to use a flash or not and that too in which angle ;)

i also follow/do, like you have mentioned, the concepts of: composition basics, depth of field, perspective distortion, the rule of thirds (also knowing when to break this rule), etc.

i feel the most important is being keep shooting and then reviewing each shot. that's the key to master it :)

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~ photography is an amazing hobby. over the years ...