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08/09/2015 11:26:01 PM · #26 |
Originally posted by GolferDDS:
I was off playing golf! What a beautiful day. Finally worked out a problem in my backswing! |
Me too! I thought and thought about why I was getting so bad the last year or so, after my surgery, and decided I was keeping left foot too anchored on the backswing. Lifting the heel in the turn and planting it to start the downswing brought my swing path back more inside, and then I was able to start pronating more with the wrists, and bingo! I'm back to the low 80's again :-) |
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08/09/2015 11:27:23 PM · #27 |
| 105mm Macro, probably the Sigma with OS, or the Nikkor with VR. Then I could finally take macro shots that didn't frustrate me... |
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08/10/2015 10:09:05 AM · #28 |
Buy The Photography Book, available used at Amazon from $0.01
If you really want to be a better photographer you must learn about photographs, rather than about photography (books about photography are counter-productive).
This book has 500 significant photographs by 500 photographers, and each photograph is accompanied by an informed commentary, cross-referenced to others of similar vein. It's the most illuminating book ever published about photographs.
And you still have $999.99 left over: the first Grand you never wasted on photography.
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08/10/2015 10:43:41 AM · #29 |
| Sigma 8-16 or Tokina 11-16. |
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08/10/2015 12:56:42 PM · #30 |
Originally posted by ubique:
Buy The Photography Book, available used at Amazon from $0.01
If you really want to be a better photographer you must learn about photographs, rather than about photography (books about photography are counter-productive). |
And yet it's titled "The Photography Book" and not "The Photograph Book" ... :-(
I doubt at that price it comes with free shipping, so I don't think you'll have the full $999.99 left over ... |
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08/10/2015 02:17:53 PM · #31 |
Originally posted by ubique:
Buy The Photography Book, available used at Amazon from $0.01
If you really want to be a better photographer you must learn about photographs, rather than about photography (books about photography are counter-productive).
This book has 500 significant photographs by 500 photographers, and each photograph is accompanied by an informed commentary, cross-referenced to others of similar vein. It's the most illuminating book ever published about photographs.
And you still have $999.99 left over: the first Grand you never wasted on photography. |
Yes, that's a great way to be super boring. Study what everyone else has done, then learn to carefully imitate it. |
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08/10/2015 02:47:06 PM · #32 |
I'm on the verge of signing up for some drawing courses. I don't think looking at photographs can hurt the process, but I do think learning to see is more important. "Playing" with the camera/lenses, like wielding a brush or stick of charcoal, can be part of that process.
I have still not quite wrapped my head around Paul's distinction between photography and photographs. In my mind it has to do with the finished product. On paper, not on the screen. Something as close to 2 dimensional as is practicable. I suspect that by "photography" he means all that gear cum acrobatics.
Is it important to know what is really meant? Or what it suggests... |
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08/10/2015 02:55:39 PM · #33 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by GolferDDS:
I was off playing golf! What a beautiful day. Finally worked out a problem in my backswing! |
Me too! I thought and thought about why I was getting so bad the last year or so, after my surgery, and decided I was keeping left foot too anchored on the backswing. Lifting the heel in the turn and planting it to start the downswing brought my swing path back more inside, and then I was able to start pronating more with the wrists, and bingo! I'm back to the low 80's again :-) |
Ah Yes, Golf and Photography have a lot in common: We are always trying to improve our technique; We each have our own style; There is a lot of technology involved and it is always getting better; They can be very social hobbies or you can do it alone. Both involve a love of nature and the out of doors (usually); The better you get, the better you want to get; Even a bad day is fun; The pursuit of perfection is the road to many other delights along the way. Just to name a few. |
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