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Bill Force
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Take classes and read all the professional documents you can obtain.
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' You don't have to have the best of everything to get the best out of what you do have'.
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' You don't have to have the best of everything to get the best out of what you do have'.
Step 1: Ignore buying a new camera this second. Equipment can help your photography, but only if your current camera is holding you back and you know why.
Step 2: Figure out what the difference between your photography is and what you consider professional. Namely, are you interested in people/events? Wildlife? Street scenes? Landscapes? Or just like to dabble in everything?
Step 3: Read books (ask for recommendations here
), look at samples, and experiment with your current camera. Take lots of pictures. Spend time reviewing them on your computer and determine what is good and what isn't in each one. Think about how much money you saved not having to develop 20 rolls of film to do the same thing 
Step 4: If you camera becomes a limiting factor in your trials, then you can consider what you need to replace and what to replace it with - since you just figured what is lacking in your current camera and what features you're looking for.
Step 2: Figure out what the difference between your photography is and what you consider professional. Namely, are you interested in people/events? Wildlife? Street scenes? Landscapes? Or just like to dabble in everything?
Step 3: Read books (ask for recommendations here
), look at samples, and experiment with your current camera. Take lots of pictures. Spend time reviewing them on your computer and determine what is good and what isn't in each one. Think about how much money you saved not having to develop 20 rolls of film to do the same thing Step 4: If you camera becomes a limiting factor in your trials, then you can consider what you need to replace and what to replace it with - since you just figured what is lacking in your current camera and what features you're looking for.
BraveUlysses
Senior Member
n/t means no text. Yes, I know that this is text.
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Rob
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'Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.' Sydney Smith (1771-1845)
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Rob
If you're bored...
http://braveulysses.deviantart.com/
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'Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.' Sydney Smith (1771-1845)
jfinite
Veteran Member
mountaingirl
Leading Member
handle/experiment with different cameras and tell them what your needs and goals are.
I have a Canon XT, and while it's not a professional camera, it takes me where no point and shoot ever has.
at least consider the XT, since it's been discounted a lot recently.
good luck
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I have a Canon XT, and while it's not a professional camera, it takes me where no point and shoot ever has.
at least consider the XT, since it's been discounted a lot recently.
good luck
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ausGeoff
Leading Member
Small clarification needed methinks?
It's not necessarily (or even usually) the camera that'll give you "professional" images, but rather the photographer himself.
If you can't get "professional" (my definition — 'a skilled practitioner') images from a $600 Kodak, then you ain't gonna get 'em from a $3000 Canon either.
Simple really.
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It's not necessarily (or even usually) the camera that'll give you "professional" images, but rather the photographer himself.
If you can't get "professional" (my definition — 'a skilled practitioner') images from a $600 Kodak, then you ain't gonna get 'em from a $3000 Canon either.
Simple really.
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