A few things about visiting a beautiful place (like Paris) more as a tourist than as a photographer. And not being rude.

lessons learned from saying yes when asked to take photos for a magazine article. eek! Tips From the Top Floor from Chris Marquardt, episode 679: http://tipsfromthetopfloor.com/2015/04/17/tfttf679-remarkable-not-marketable/ Tips from the Top Floor Podcast

Sometimes you see a great photo but you don’t have your camera with you. Or if you have it but it’s buried in your bag. Argh. Thanks for listening. tenthousdandcrappyphotos@gmail.com learningbyshooting.com

I don’t usually fret too too much about getting tack sharp photos. Not that I always do, of course. But a weekend with a longer lens made me realize that I’d picked up a couple of lazy habits. This photo still warms my heart. We’re here:

  We’re here: https://learningbyshooting.com/ Bart Busschots talks with Antonio Rosario and Mark Pouley about several actual photographs, on the Let’s Talk Photography podcast: http://www.lets-talk.ie/blog/?p=1924 Steve Simon’s book

At a recent holiday get together I learned that I can be the photographer for just a short time, as well as hand off my camera to someone else. Safely. Lessons learned from my 365 – and put to use – yes!    

I was really stupid and ran out of the house without a memory card. So I practiced by taking a few non photos. Turned out to be a good way to calm down too.   10,000 crappy photos lives at https://learningbyshooting.com/ tenthousandcrappyphotos@gmail

At an annual get-together with friends and colleagues, someone told me that he had been fearing my camera. What a surprise. And a disappointment. I’ll react differently if that happens again.

Why so grainy? Turns out, underexposed photos can be a cause of noisy photos too. Who knew? For once it wasn’t because I’d shot with the wrong ISO. Baby steps.

Sometimes the settings from last night are not the settings you need this morning. Sometimes shooting raw can save you, sometimes you get a strange yet lucky accident.