This past weekend I held my first mini workshop for photographers and let me just say it was amazing! While I love being behind the camera, teaching others how to get out of automatic and start shooting in manual mode was the best feeling ever! I left with a renewed spirit. I hope that my ‘students’ felt that they learned something too…We met up at The Tasting Room in Ardmore PA and had access to some beautiful food as out subject. There were many different levels of experience in the room and this is where the class took its turn…2 of my participants had never read their camera manuals, LIKE NEVER. But they aren’t the only ones, it seems this phenom is happening all over. People are buying cameras and THINKING that they can just push a button and this image with beautifully blurred background and perfect focus is just going to happen. Well to that I say NOT..NEVER…NOPE
You see, photography is an art, a skill that must be mastered and practiced every day. But even before that you buy this camera, this tool of the trade and it comes with this book a rather small book called a manual. You open it up to page one which shows you how to attach your camera strap, insert your battery and other goodies. Aces! Then you are thinking this shit is boring and your ADHD starts kicking in and you can’t tolerate any more but keep going you’re getting to the good stuff pretty soon. The authors go one to discuss how to change Aperture, ISO and Shutter Speed. Which, in all honesty does sound like High School Trig, but if you want to take GOOD pictures keep going it really isn’t that bad.
The truth is the manual is written in 2, maybe 3 LANGUAGES which is why its go thick, it really has only about 50 or so pages of useful content.
After that it’s all practice!
Soup of the Day
