25,277 Tips And Tricks To Improve Your Photography!

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If you read all of the articles published, as well as videos posted to You Tube, about tips and tricks to improve your landscape, street, sports, action, portraiture, wedding, food, travel, nature, color, black and white etc. photography over the past 10 years, it would probably add up to about 25,000. Tips and Tricks?  How many can there be?  How many of those articles are you going to read?  Everything these authors write is just a repeat of what someone else wrote?

By the way, why are you looking for tips and tricks anyway?  Why aren't you out there learning by doing and evaluating your specific results, modifying your technique and earning your photographic success instead of looking for the easy way out?  The easy way out never really works in the long run, in my opinion.  Never has.

Just wondering....

Learning by studying (and that includes workshops, being mentored, watching video tutorials as well), looking at successful photographs, trying, making mistakes, understanding and analyzing those mistakes, then repeating the process but correcting your mistakes is the proven way toward continuous and incremental improvement not only in photography, but in most endeavors.  This seems to be the process that has proven itself as being the best way to long term and permanent betterment, in my experience.

No more hacks.  No more tricks.  No more easy way.  Just go out and do the work, learn by your mistakes and get better by doing, doing, doing.  And don't blame your gear!  Its all good stuff now.

Thanks for looking.  Enjoy!

Dennis Mook

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