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By | July 25, 2010
Patience is a virtue. It always has been and always will. In photography terms, it is vital.
We are so used to things happening rapidly in photography that we can sometimes feel overwhelmed and ever ready for the sudden shot or opportunity. Candids, objects going at breakneck speed and the general rush of life all make us believe that getting the correct shot as soon as possible is the only way to capture a great image.
No so. Take your time, relax and chill out.
There will be times that you need to act quickly. But in more cases there is a need for patience and perseverance.
Consider a bird in your garden. He visits you on a regular basis and you have even put up some hanging nuts to capture his attention and entice him to stay that little bit longer. He visits and you snap away because he only stays a few seconds before he is gone perhaps alerted or frightened by something around him.
Why not take a different approach and instead of rushing to get that photograph when he is newly landed, set up with a view to staying an hour, two hours, three,,,,
In this way you are likely to capture him when YOU are ready. Even more, you are likely to find that he comes back again and again, giving you the opportunity for more shots of him in action.
If you are lucky, careful and patient, there might very well be other birds visiting that same bag of hanging nuts. Perhaps you hadn t even noticed them in your garden but now, because you were prepared to watch and wait, you now have additional opportunities for a great photo.
Patience is a virtue. Oh yes.
Eric Hartwell runs the photography resource site http://www.theshutter.co.uk and the associated discussion forums as well as the regular weblog at http://thephotographysite.blogspot.com.
As photography itself has embraced technologies like digital, we ourselves as photographers must embrace advancing technologies like the Internet. The door has been opened to showcase your work to not only a national but also an international audience. Once online, your photographs can be viewed from countries as far apart and varied as America to Australia and Russia to Africa.
A website has become an essential tool for any serious creative person. Indeed so much so, that it has got to the point that if you don t have an online presence, you simply don t exist. A website is the perfect place to show your images, sell your images and to build your reputation as a photographer. It is also the chance to familiarise yourself with the marketing practice of ecommerce, i.e. doing business on the Internet.
I have recently had a website designed to showcase my photography at www.capturednature.com I have found this to be wholly useful in both attracting business and as an interactive portfolio of my work. It is important to make your website look professional, and to be built in the most effective way that compliments your images.
Another positive side to using the Internet for imagery is that in the whole it is universally viewable. Of course text may cause a problem and come up against language barriers, but the images viewed can be understood globally.
On the cautious side, you need to look after your work and make sure your images are copyright and protected. Don t let this put you off though to the benefits that can be harvested by taking your photography onto the online stage.
John Threlfall is a self-taught photographer with a deep passion for nature photography. John has a Masters Degree in ‘Creative Imaging’. His work can be viewed at http://www.capturednature.com The images capture the pure simplistic, yet breathtaking beauty that is hidden away in rural Britain.
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