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1. Learn some Photoshop.

2. Take more, serious landscape shots with tripod: Retire earlier in the evening, get up earlier to get to the location in the best light (on one weekend day at least).

3. Don't buy anymore cameras this coming year, 2007.

4. Print more, if shots do improve.

Do you guys have any NY's resolutions for 2007?

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Mesh
Australia
R1, 828
5% lighting, 5% composition. 90% location. Get there.
 
I would probably add try to overcome my hesitance to take people shots in other than social/family setting.
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George B



Bona fide member, STF Quack Pack
 
Those work well for me too. I started Photoshop this year but it is a multi-year process. Photoshop will also help with the landscapes. I am not sure what will suppress the urge for new cameras. Happy New Year!

Larry
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larry wfu
Member Sony H-series Duck Club
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Yes John, I hope that memory fades for you. Can I add to your resolves one to post on STF some work from your replacement camera on the China you see around you? I like both your posed work and your "reportage"

Dan
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For me, taking a picture is a way of slowing down and seeing the world more deeply.

http://clint.com/danhawthorn/index.htm
 
Meshwork said:
1. Learn some Photoshop.
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Yes - me too - it may well be a multi year process but now is when I begin
Meshwork said:
2. Take more, serious landscape shots with tripod: Retire earlier
in the evening, get up earlier to get to the location in the best
light (on one weekend day at least).
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I am retiring at the start of 2007! I want to make really serious progress on my landscape work and to use my new freedom productively, I want to see a lot of sunrises and sunsets.
Meshwork said:
3. Don't buy any more cameras this coming year, 2007.
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Crikey Mesh, you have will power like a dingo's jaw! I hereby resolve not to buy more than two cameras in 2007! Maybe a DSLR and maybe an H6/7/8 but both only if they really add to what I can do. I would be really happy to get no extra cameras and find some extra skills inside me.
Meshwork said:
4. Print more, if shots do improve.
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Print a few of my photos, I normally just display them on screen.
Meshwork said:
Do you guys have any NY's resolutions for 2007?
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The key one is to build my photography into my retirement in a way that feeds me artistically, spiritually and physically after some years of more work stress than was good for me and less me than was good for me. So more long hikes and journeys with the camera, more dawns and evenings in remote paces, more sharing of what I do with Miranda and others, more quiet reflection on the world around me.

Dan
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For me, taking a picture is a way of slowing down and seeing the world more deeply.

http://clint.com/danhawthorn/index.htm
 
...I really want to learn Photoshop. I know I can improve on shots like these, which are straight out of camera (resized too, of course):





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Mesh
Australia
R1, 828
5% lighting, 5% composition. 90% location. Get there.
 
Don't delete ---- AAAAH! It's forever! Must preserve all pictures, for the future, may contain info to save the world, create world peace, solve a murder, last picture of an extinct animal, besides photoshop of the future will be able to repair all blurry shots, chopped off heads, and rotate people so you can see their front instead of their back, . . .
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Karen
 
IMHO those shots are nice the way they are. I might sharpen them a bit but that's just my taste and others might like this soft atmosphere.
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Nagy
 
Gain a better understanding of aperture, shutter speed, exposure, ISO, so I can move more into manual shooting and improve picture quality in difficult lighting situations.
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Karen
 
Meshwork said:
1. Learn some Photoshop.
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Can never get enough of that.
I have all I can do learning it's little sibling Elements.
Meshwork said:
2. Take more, serious landscape shots with tripod: Retire earlier
in the evening, get up earlier to get to the location in the best
light (on one weekend day at least).
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I miss half the great sky shots because I get up at 9
Meshwork said:
3. Don't buy anymore cameras this coming year, 2007.
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Umm, I may. Then again I may not. I might go for a Nikon D200 but then again, maybe not.
Meshwork said:
4. Print more, if shots do improve.
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Yeah, I did a lot of that this year.
Meshwork said:
Do you guys have any NY's resolutions for 2007?
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Yes, I am going to concentrate on getting really super wildlife shots, hot babe shots and maybe a landscape or so.
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R1 and H5 photos here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/grossinger
 
This is a good thread, Mesh.

I would like to try to make every shot count. It's kind of the reverse of learning more post-processing. I find that choosing among too many different exposures and angles to be a chore. Way to many GB's of lousy photos on my hard drives. I would like to take less photos, but better ones.

I share your feeling about making more effort to get the right shot at the right time. You KNOW when the light is the best...get out there!

I would like to restrain myself from making wild or negative comments on photos that I have no business commenting on.

That's about it, photographically speaking.
I hope you all achieve your goals.

Gordon

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'If it Looks good....it IS good!'
http://www.pbase.com/gbk

 
...if it's any consolation, when I was holidaying in Perth a few years ago I didn't concern myself with renewing the household insurance of my top floor apartment in Sydney, thinking the security there was more than adequate.

Well, I got broken into didn't I. Lost my laptop with several gigabytes of Canon G5 shots - not backed up. They even swiped my laptop bag, and loose change.

: - /

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Mesh
Australia
R1, 828
5% lighting, 5% composition. 90% location. Get there.
 
gordonkeyes said:
This is a good thread, Mesh.

I would like to try to make every shot count. It's kind of the
reverse of learning more post-processing. I find that choosing
among too many different exposures and angles to be a chore. Way to
many GB's of lousy photos on my hard drives. I would like to take
less photos, but better ones.

I share your feeling about making more effort to get the right shot
at the right time. You KNOW when the light is the best...get out
there!
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This is the only one I would add to Mesh's original list. We push that little button way too many times - just becase we can; then we have to deal with all the files when we get them on the computer... which to keep... which to dump... which to process now and which to put aside for possible attention at some later time. We'd be way better off using a little more discretion in the field and bring back fewer images, I think.
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-Jerry
Sony V1 and H5 - Still learning...

'The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.'
-- Dorothea Lange

http://www.pbase.com/icicle50/root
 
...I've got another 6 or 7 years before I hang up my work boots, but when I do I hope to be buying a Canon 70D. Or whatever is around then. I hope I'm around!

Looking forward to your next bird shots. They've been fantastic.

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Mesh
Australia
R1, 828
5% lighting, 5% composition. 90% location. Get there.
 
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