Pretty Pictures

Recently a friend of mine sent me a funny graph about a photographer’s life. Although I did LOL-ed a lot, there was an annoying truth about that graph. It showed that even a lifetime cannot be enough for perfecting your photography. Many top photographers would agree with that. There is no perfect art, there is no perfect picture. From my experience, and I believe a lot of people would agree, when you start taking pictures you think you are doing ok, that you are on the right track. This can be quite a trap resulting in limiting your progress into becoming a better photographer. Taking one out of focus image can be a mistake, taking twenty out of focus images it’s a style…your style.  And maybe you don’t want that.Today’s cameras do a pretty good job on automating everything, making very easy to take pretty pictures like the one above. Don’t go for Auto. Go for manual ,it will get you there faster.

The Photo : This is taken on a really windy day. I saw the leafs on the ground settle after a gust of wind brought chaos to the scene,lowered the camera at the pavement level,took only 3 frames.Would a photo with the leafs dancing in the air have been more interesting than this one? I will never know.I left and thats a mistake.Shot with the Canon 550D @f2.2 Canon 85mm lens[Get this lens!], iso 100,1/2000