Want Some Photo Advice? Here Is A Frequently Overlooked - Well Duh - Tip To Photo Mastery

When was the last time someone looked at one of your photos and was really blown away? If you aren't regularly getting "eye popping" photos, you're probably stopping too soon. Here is some photo advice to help you on your path to photo mastery. Keep shooting! No one really talks much about this aspect of photography, but it is as important as any other bit of photo advice you are likely to encounter. I used to jokingly say that the difference between a professional photographer and an amateur is...the pro has thrown away more photos than the amateur! Then, I realized it isn't a joke...it's true!If you have ever attended or been part of a professional photo shoot, they all have one thing in common - the professional photographer takes a TON of pictures! Back in ancient times (when everyone was shooting film), this could get pretty expensive! Consider, if you had to pay anywhere from $5 to $10 dollars for a roll of film and then ANOTHER $10 - $15 to have the film developed and printed, the costs could add up in a hurry! Even developing and printing it yourself wasn't any help, you still had to spend hour after hour in the darkroom. Allowing for the value of your time, it could be even MORE expensive that way! Yet, professional photographers would shoot maybe 50 or even a 100 rolls of film on a single subject! Why? It is worth it! True they were clearly masters of the science of photography... aperture settings, shutter speeds and so on... but, to capture that elusive artistic factor takes a lot of shots! There just isn't any other way. Your models get more comfortable, or bored, or more into posing, the light changes - whatever. At some point, you will get the exact combination that will make people look at the photo and say; "WOW." The bad news is, there's no way to describe or define that certain perfect look. You just have to see it. And you do that by shooting and looking at 100's of shots. So whenever you hear a photographer saying "just one more", now you know what is happening. GREAT NEWS! With digital photography, it doesn't cost anything! You can shoot one picture or a thousand! It all costs the same. In my opinion, that's the biggest and possibly only true benefit of going digital. When it comes to photo advice - what does this mean to you? If you are experimenting with a new posing technique or a new subject...or even if the question of "What would happen if?" ever pops into your head, test it out! It won't cost a thing to test it out! I read somewhere that once you've shot a 1000 rolls of film on any one subject, you will have truly mastered photographing that subject. Mentally calculate the cost of doing that with film versus digital. I think you will agree that you have a tremendous opportunity! Set yourself a goal of trying something totally new at least once a week and most importantly, don't just shoot a couple shots. Get in there and shoot hundreds! Literally! Try every angle, and all the shutter speeds, apertures as well as all the lenses in your equipment bag. The trick is to experiment with ALL the options, not just keep shooting in the same old ways...that bit of photo advice will quickly separate you from the crowd. There's no need to be stingy. You can now master a technique - literally for free - that we old pros had to spend thousands of dollars learning. Within a matter of weeks, your friends and relatives will all be coming to YOU for photo advice.