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Andre Gunther has a nice little article featuring the “ten most common photographic mistakes“, which is definitely worth a read.
All Andre’s tips are based on the composition of your photos, which fits in nicely with our own Creative Composition series. It also means the advice is useful for everyone - whether you have the cheapest compact digital camera or a top of the range SLR.
My own tip to add to this: If you’re shooting on digital, always take several photos of your subject, trying different angles and composition techniques, and never delete photos from the camera unless you really need to. You’ll often find unexpected surprises when viewing your photos on a large monitor that are easily missed when viewing on a camera’s tiny display.
2 Responses
Genteltouch
June 19th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
1I agree, that you should never delete any photo, unless you need to. The only time I will delete pre-download is when it’s obvious it’s going to be embarrassing, such as accidentally photographing your feet blurred, or it’s so blurred and obscure that it cannot even be identified. After all, with a 1GB card at 6.1MP, you have over 500 shots, and with a 2GB card, you have over 1000 photos, it’s highly doubtful you will run out of space, unless you are like a friend of mine, who doesn’t have a computer. His solution? When his card fills up, he buys a new one!
Whatisee
June 21st, 2007 at 5:50 pm
2I also agree. I never delete from the camera unless it is absolutely blurred. I also download all the photo from my camera to my backup drive and to the main drive on the computer. The file on the maindrive usually only have the photo I plan to “process”
My son says that you never know when you’ll need that backup of the originals. Like when I pass to the great beyond and suddenly become a famous photographer (ha ha) he’ll have evey picture I ever took.
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