shooters

Snapshots are often quite horrible things.

They just aren't pretty pictures.

A snapshot serves its purpose of capturing a moment in time, of recording the presence of people either in the image or at a place. However they also let us down because the snap shooter can only take snapshots.

And a snapshot is not as good as a photograph.

I define a photograph narrowly as a work of art created by an artist.

In photography to become an artist you must first become a shooter.

A shooter takes lots of pictures and here is how to do it. Take one reliable camera mix in a lot of film, shoot lots of pictures, have every frame printed and look at every one of them. Assuming that you already know the difference between a snapshot and a picture you will find, somewhere in your first 100 or so pictures, a couple of good ones. Then you do it all over again.

When you aren't doing this go to the library and look at all of the pictures in all of the books in the art and photography section.

With much practice you will notice that you see things differently. You will find more and more good pictures.

Then you are on your way to being a photographer.

It is a good plan for being on the way to anything. Practice, evaluate, practice, evaluate, get results.