Chapter 9. Master Your Tools

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New York, 2012

An amateur practices until he can do a thing right, a professional until he can’t do it wrong.

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Having the right equipment at the right time is a good start, but it won’t do you any good if you don’t know how to use it. Today we have access to some of the most advanced camera and post-processing technologies in the world. The cameras have extremely advanced metering systems, fast auto focus, and they allow us to instantaneously see what we’ve captured so that we can refine our settings. After capture, we can use software like Lightroom and Photoshop to make nondestructive changes to the image, ...

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