 joy e. GLENN |
anyone willing to be a mentor I know that we can post here and get excellent advice from many photographers. But is anyone willing to mentor me one on one via email? I am not a beginner, but feel I am stuck. I would also like to have better knowledge of photoshop. I wont be a pest, but maybe ask 1 0r 2 questions a week, and maybe critique my best work. Thanks!
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TERESA J. SWEET |
Hi Joy, I know the very basics of Photoshop and I really am learning that as I go along. But I've been a photographer for many years, so feel free to email me offline whenever you'd like! Hopefully I can help! =) Just use the Contact icon in my gallery and that will send it to me offline. I'm sure many others here would be just as willing to help you out! Good luck!
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Ken P. Madland |
I have been using photoshop for quite a few yers I will be glad to help with what I can. I have a few sites that I can send you when I get off work that have some verry usefull video tutorials.
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Pete H |
Joy, My suggestion would be to post your specific questions on this board. That way, you'll get more than one idea on how to skin the photoshop cat! LOL I've used Adobe PS for years, and still I am learning; although I will say, there are very eloquent ways to accomplish tasks in photoshop, but over the years and after learning much, I now seek the faster ways to get the job done with professional results. All the best, Pete
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joy e. GLENN |
Thanks for your offer and advice! I really appreciate it. I may be writing you a quick email here and there. Have you had that experience of trying to teach yourself photoshop and realizing you have been doing the same thing over and over and it has failed each time? But you kept doing it...or spending an hour clicking on everything to do an action on the photo? Its still fun though
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Debbie Del Tejo |
First of all, get away from that computer and GET SHOOTING....You need more photos on your gallery.
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A C |
here are some VERY helpful tutorials that will help a LOT: http://www.russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html
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Jerry Frazier |
I, personally, would never pick ONE person as a mentor, unless they were, literally, God. Otherwise, I'd say that you should pick multiple people. And, you should pick people that have differing opinions on the same topic so that you can get different sides of the same thing. Also, whoever you pick, make sure that they give good advice. What does that mean? Well, they may have a POV about things. But, it may not be an accurate POV. Sure, they have a business, and it works for them, but maybe they are lazy, or maybe it APPREARS that they are successful, but the truth is they scratch by every month. You need to pick someone who feels right, who will give accurate advice, and who can truly mentor and guide you. It's actually a pretty big deal because that person will influence how you shoot, work, and view the world thorugh your lens. So, you need to pick wisely. I personally would use different people for different things. Workflow, one person. Shooting, several other people. Photoshop stuff, a few who do work you like to look at. Business stuff, read books, and ask stuff here, but take it all with a grain of salt and do what you feel is right. Consult professionals, not people with opinons; lawyers, accoutants, tax consultants, etc
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TERESA J. SWEET |
Jerry stated everything perfectly =)
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Bob Cammarata |
Hello Joy, I'm certainly no Photoshop guru, but if you're stuck creatively there are many who visit this site who be might be willing to help. Creative photographs require accomplished photographic vision. You must have in your mind at least the blueprint for what you perceive as the final result. If you are in a rut for really seeing things as they appear at the scene...and you feel that you are falling short in capturing the beauty and intrigue of what you are attempting to portray, there are a few folks here who can help with that as well.
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Jerry Frazier |
Bob made a great point. When I first tried photographing seriously, I would see something, and take the picture. But, when I saw the resulting photograph it didn't look anything like I had felt when I photographed it. In other words, I totally missed it. Now, when I shoot, (this is going to sound weird), but it's almost like I separate myself, but I am still there at the same time. So, I enjoy the emotion or whatever, but I also step back and find the cause of it. It's as if I am having an out of body experience. I am concious, I know I am laying there, but I also look around, and see everyone standing over my body trying to bring me back to life. It's kind of like that - both things at the same time. That's how I capture emotion and beauty. I find that I first have to feel it, then find it. The best example of this is one time I was with my daughter who was very young, and she was just in amazement when she saw some of the characters at Disneyland. I took photos of it. But, when you look at the photos, it's just a photo of a kid smiling. There's no POV, there's nothing to put the whole thing into context. Had I been a better photogapher, I would have known that I needed to add context in order to make in meaningful in some way. A few simple moves could have taken care of it. But, I didn't know better. I was too focused on catching her smile than I was on framing the context of her happiness. I hope this makes sense and inspires you to think about your next shoot.
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joy e. GLENN |
wow, that is interesting, I am still trying to grasp that out of body experience you mentioned..I need to think on that one. I think you know the second you press the shutter when you have captured "the" picture. Especially with film cameras, you knew it when you shot it and couldnt wait to see the end result. I spend the afternoon taking pictures limiting myself to my backyard, just snapping at whatever I felt. I didnt capture "the" picture, but it was a great exercise in seeing possibilities that I didnt know were there before. and sometimes what I felt sure was nothing, ended up more beautiful thru the eyes of the camera in the shot.
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Debbie Del Tejo |
Joy, Not only with film cameras...I use digital and even though I can see the photograph right away, I can't wait to get home and see it on my computer....BIG!!!! with detail....my excitement is even better now then when I was shooting film, because I have TOTAL CONTROL!!!
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Bob Cammarata |
Photography in itself, is a kind of high. When we have become one with our subject...when we start muttering to ourselves nonsensically while clicking away, we realize that we have evaluated the scene before us and have utilized our knowledge, experience and instincts to record that vision as accurately as possible. When we can't wait to to see the results that we will eventually portray, we know in our hearts and minds that we had nailed that scene! We are confident that our inital thoughts and intent will be self evident in the final image we present when we shoot from our inner vision.
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Debbie Del Tejo |
Bob, I think you should be the speech writter for MR BUSH!!!!!
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anonymous A. |
I'd suggest, Joy, that rather than inviting people who might want to "mentor" you, you look through some of the galleries and ask people whose work inspires you to critique your work. But even good photographers may not be good mentors...some can't really explain what they do or how they achieve their results or their "look". Others can be very pedantic and opinionated; not many can analyse an image technically and aesthetically and give useful feedback and opinion.
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Samuel Smith |
i'm just glad there is someone else who talks to themselves while shooting.i often feel there is a student/teacher relationship and then I remember I must have a split personality,i'm by myself! I took my misting sprayer out early this morning and shot spider webs,neat for some and creepy for others. and yea I had to look another word up in the dictionary. good points of view,sam
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Bob Cammarata |
"Bob, I think you should be the speech writter for MR BUSH!!!!!" (...as long as I don't have to say "nukyelar") :)
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Bob Chance |
hi Joy: Well you have certainly received your share of offers. Funny, how so many suggest that you seek more than one mentor and yet, there are probably a dozen here who have already offered to help.
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BetterPhoto Member |
Bob its mentor, not mental
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BetterPhoto Member |
By the way DOF sucks in the digital world. So I shoot everything in focus with the light that I like then blur it out in PS to draw attention to my subject. Im fast in PS, but slow in camera thinking (oh well, at least I get the effect I want)
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