Similarities Between Photography and Poker
Last week, went and signed up for a $95 online course that's supposed to help improve iphone photos. Here's the link to the course - the delivery's kind of infomercial-ish, but the content's been pretty high quality, so am pretty happy to have signed up
https://iphonephotographyschool.com/ipa/
The person who put together the materials said in the intro that he always felt the people who took nice photos must be talented, and that wasn't him ... but after looking at all the books on the market and tons of photos, he noticed some patterns that helped even him improve. So that sounded right of up my alley ... no talent, but eager to improve?
And then in addition to the courses, we get to join a group where everybody can post photos, so other students can see how people are learning and offer feedback/tips.
One thing was noticing in looking at other student photos, is that maybe subject matter is a bit like hand strength, and photography skills are like poker skills? Like maybe it's easier to take a great photo of beautiful scenery, and even skilled photographers might not be able to do too much all the time with scenes that are a bit dull? (And then hopefully there's room for learning and practice to make a difference with photo taking?)
Some examples from the photo group:
Roaming Buffalo at Yosemite = strong hand like KK?
Swimming at the Beach in San Juan = AKs?
Pastoral Living in the South of France = JTs?
So what to do when one lives in a big city, and all that's dotting the landscape is this?
Costco - AA for their deals, but 35o for good photo potential?
lol - guess this is my home, so am hoping to just try to learn to take the best photos possible of what's around ... so maybe if am ever at Yosemite, will be able to take the best possible photo of the roaming buffalo on my trip? Would be very happy with that
Some other people seem to have taken pics of stuff that's more local and have found a way to make it work - so hopefully it's possible to find stuff every once in a while ...
Photo from Someone who Lives on a Farm
This is Someone's Neighbour in NYC (originally from Texas)
Some Everyday Seagulls
In addition to trying to take more photos, am really looking forward to doing more jogging this Spring. Guess it can be a bit more challenging when the weather's still cool, or when it gets a lot hotter out - but hopefully there'll be a decent couple of months to whip up some perk and pep
Still have to do my 1Q review - yikes
Guess will just chalk March up to a learning experience, and try to improve moving forward. Will try to have the summary done by the end of the week?
Last edited by TrustySam; 08-28-2017 at 08:40 PM.