September 2008
Beginner to intermediate
288 pages
9h 36m
English
Content preview from The Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D Companion
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CHAPTER 8
PRACTICE
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Practice
While it’s possible to contrive guidelines for specific photographic situations—
get down low while shooting kids, fill the frame when shooting portraits, etc.—as
you’ve seen, the process of making a good photo requires a lot of decision making
and a lot of choice and experimentation. Rather than learning specific rules for
specific situations, it’s better to learn what it feels like to see, what makes a good
composition, and how your exposure settings affect your image. With these basic
building blocks, you’ll be able to go far beyond simple formulas for different situ-
ations. You’ll be able to find your own solutions that better convey what you feel
about a particular scene.
We can discuss all of these ideas and rules for hours, and the discussion can be
very enjoyable and enlightening, but more than any lesson, more than any new
piece of gear, more than any piece of postproduction software, the single thing
that will do the most to improve your photography is practice.
You must practice seeing, practice composing; practice your understanding of
the effects of exposure, camera position, and focal length; and practice with the
controls of your XSi so that you can quickly adjust and adapt to any situation
without having to think too much about the camera. You want your focus to be
on composition. Practice will make all of these things possible. So, get
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