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Where to go as a hobbyist photographer Anonymous
The level I'm at so far:
- Have read (and practiced) Bryan Peterson's Learn to See Creatively.
- Intuitive feel for the relationship between shutter speed, aperture, and film speed.
- Have some idea of how the zone system works.
- When and when not to trust TTL light metering.

I don't know:
- What exactly good composition is.
- The zone system in-and-out or if it's even worthwhile.
- How to work with fill flashes or external lighting.
- Curves and levels in image editors.

Where does one go from here? I'm looking at the syllabi of photography courses looking for a new goal.

This picture is very misleading. These are the gayest flowers I have ever seen in my life. I filled the frame to make it look like there are a lot more than there really are. Fuck flowers up their petaly asses. Also I got too carried away with the large aperture. What is wrong with this photograph besides what I've already pointed out?
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>> Oh yeah and another thing Anonymous
Which online print labs do folks here use? If any?
>> des
>>40472
composition- take an art appreciation and/or art history course. it's a good way to gleem ideas and concepts for composition or theme. it doesn't have to be photography oriented. (lol it won't be)
zone- haven't had enough coffee this morning to arm myself for a religious war
fill- daytime fill for regular use is generally a no brainer these days. used to be meter for scene, whip out flash cheatsheet you compiled from prior experiments, look up flash power in your cheetsheet matrix to go with a stop/couple stops below metering. now it's like, TTL flash at -1.3EV, receive lulz
>>40474
I like mpix.com. Quick service, great paper and size choices, great prints. I'm a little worried that they're starting to offer a lot of ancillary services but they do have ROSE and FTP uploading so, hopefully, they'll keep up the goods.
>> Anonymous
Can you tell me how you learnt when and when not to trust TTL light metering?

I don't actually know much about it, but at the moment I'm using a Pentax MX and I'm pretty much trusting the light meter on that constantly for each shot (except flash).