Thoughts on cameras in the age of excellent cell phone photos

Re:Thoughts on cameras in the age of excellent cell phone ph... by Jaruzel on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @10:16AM (#23403545)

This is why I gave up photography as a hobby. I don't 'the eye' for it. All my photos come out bland and badly composed. These days my DSLRs and all their lenses just sit in a draw gathering dust.

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Re:Thoughts on cameras in the age of excellent cell phone ph... by the_af on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @11:26AM (#23404420)

My photos are similarly uninteresting, but this is something you can train for. You don't have to be born with this skill.

Photography courses teach basic composition skills that you have to know -- that is, if you follow them blindly you'll get decent and non-boring photos -- and then you can develop your style by selectively subverting them. I suppose getting your own style is about breaking the rules to get more "interesting" and unique photos.

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Re:Thoughts on cameras in the age of excellent cell phone ph... by feteru on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @11:52AM (#23404789)

You can definitely train it though, you never see other people's bland and poorly composed photos. Pick em back up! Or sell them...

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