Welcome to Photo Accelerator, the best place to accelerator your photography. Photography like any other disciple takes know how, hard work, and practice. All to often many folks have the perception that photograph is an easy craft to perfect. It is an easy craft to enter, but a very difficult craft to perfect, as with any craft that has a low barrier to entry.
Almost anyone can take a photograph, heck photography can even be set on autopilot with many cameras. However, this is exactly the reason, that it is so hard to obtain proficiency in photography, because the act of taking a photo is so easy we often forget or neglect the processor that must going into decided what to photograph, what settings to use, how to frame that, and from what angel to approach it. We tend drift towards the point and shoot paradigm. Because of human nature we like easy, and move towards easier, which is appropriate in someways, but we tend to forget that easier is not always better. Sure, there are some aspects of photography that ought to be and can be made easier, but in doing so sometimes we sacrifice too much control.
I look at some of these new cameras and they are designed to select all the setting completely automatically, which is great except when the camera gets it wrong and we are without override controls. One thing that I was taught in the computer d is the importance of redundancy . Yes redundancy is not always a bad thing! Redundancy basically means always having a backup, or being prepared if your primary plan or equipment is not doing what you want or need. It means always have something to fall back on.
As photographers we struggle with this love hat e relationship with our camera and gear, because it both enables and constrains us. It enables us to do some pretty amazing things, but yet in constrains us to thinking of things inside the box, and holds us back from doing too much outside of the box with photography, because we have to work within the box of the camera. But yet still we are constantly coming up with new and unique ways to work with the box and take things from inside the box and use them in an outside of the box manner.