Learning to Photograph - Volume 1

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Development

»It’s not important to be better than everyone else. It’s important to be better than you were yesterday!« Japanese words of wisdom

Photography, like many other disciplines, follows the 80/20 rule, which states that 80 percent of an achievement can be accomplished with 20 percent of the effort. The remaining 20 percent of an achievement takes 80 percent of the effort, time, study, and practice. This may sound like a colossal amount of labor, but it’s the difference between good photographers and great ones, whose images stay with you because their content, form, and technical superiority stand out from the rest.

The vast majority ...