The 7 Photography Mistakes I See All Photographers do!

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There are many mistakes to avoid as a photographer. In this video, I cover 7 and how to solve them!

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23 thoughts on “The 7 Photography Mistakes I See All Photographers do!”

  2. very interesting and helpful video. thank you very much for this 🙂
    i'd like to know what lenses do you usually take with you? i'm trying to decide on a few lenses to always carry around. atm its a 35mm and a 105 macro lens.
    i guess i could add a long zoom lens for birds but they are usually quite heavy

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  9. As far as the long exposures of waterfalls go, I think it is a personal preference as to if you want the texture or not. Myself, I don't like the texture. I prefer smooth and silky water.

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  11. 18:22 isn't this photo having the the same line splitting foreground and background "mistake" that was mentioned in the previous section? Not that it seems like a problem to me but just wondering the logic.

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  16. Hej Mads, I recently visited Scotland and shot a lot of waterfalls with my Sony RX10 IV. I used a shutterspeed between 1/10 and 1/5 and still had some texture. My biggest problem however is that they are almost overexposed, even though i have ISO64 and F16/22.
    How can I resolve this? Only by using a filter?

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  19. Well done Mads! A few things really impressed me about your tutorial here. First and I'm sure to many it may seem a small thing, however composing is NOT just about center, foreground, mid-ground and background, leading lines, rule of thirds, juxtaposition, contra-weighting primary and secondary objects and I could go on and on, but as you so clearly began with Edge Patrol! Bravo!

    When I began 50 years ago, after a morning when my father had been in his darkroom until mid-day and having left me spending those hours with Weston's "Day Books" and Minor White's (a family friend) Mirrors, Messages & Manifestations, he came in for lunch and I boldly said, you know "Uncle" Edward had two sons, Cole and Brett who were also fine photographers, and you're a photographer and I'm your son SO I'm going to be a photographer too! Well, not long after that my father gave me one of his 3-1/4 x 4-1/4 Graflex cameras which he put on a tripod saying this camera STAYS on this tripod! Of course, I said I want to use your Nikon and he said, "Not until you learn how to use the equipment!" He gave me one of his older Weston II light meters and basic instructions. The first and strongest was that he didn't want to see any junk in the frame, no candy wrappers, trash cans, coke bottles, garden water hoses, anything that was not intended to be there! I could have any or all of those things within the frame, but they HAD to be INTENTIONAL and meaningful to the overall composition. Then he explained that the tripod forces you to take your time and that means that you carefully consider what you're photographing, why, what you intend to show, and that you continue to evaluate all of those things all the way to every edge of the ground glass and the corners and that you have to tilt, pan, or move the tripod and camera one inch or several feet in some manner until you get your edges clean and corners set AND THEN you start taking light readings and deciding on f-stop and shutter speed and up to the very moment that you press the shutter release you continue to evaluate the entire frame! To me, that is where it all begins and ends, with the edges and corners!

    One thing I say to myself, and I'd say to any beginner, is that the world out there is full of magical things to see, between close-up and wide expansive vistas BUT NOT ALL of it IS a photograph. The temptation is to become "Giddy" and "Excited" and to go about with the motivation of "Oh look at that, that's NICE I'll photograph that! AND THAT, AND THAT TOO!" With today's technology, the ease and facility to do that is limitless! That is a danger. When I shot film, I was always very conscious of things like I only have 10 sheets of film with me, OR 10 more shots on this roll and then there was processing, hours spent in the darkroom developing, washing and drying, then printing and every sheet of paper cost and you took time to choose a developer formula for what you wanted to achieve, so many things that forced ECONONY. Today, I waste more pixels on things I shouldn't have shot, only because each individual shot is for all practical purposes FREE with very little cost in time and effort. So, the DANGER is that all of us, beginner and seasoned photographer alike fall victim to some amount of point and shoot and the temptation to say "Oh that's nice, CLICK!" So, for me to say again, the second most important thing is being aware that there's a lot of wonderful things to see out there but NOT ALL of them are PHOTOGRAPHS!

    Thirdly, what you say about your own neighborhood is such a good point! In the early 1950's my father was living in Mexico City and one day he said to himself, I've been going all over Mexico photographing but today I'm walking out onto the street and I'm only photographing within the city block where I am now! It's a fine exercise in "seeing" as in the environment where we spend the most time we take everything we see for granted and we cease to "Really" SEE it! Limiting yourself to only photograph in a very small area that's familiar to you, helps to refocus your eye and when I've been out photographing landscapes, and then find myself in a city or home, I often do that exercise of limiting my field and it helps me adjust my seeing from the wide-open spaces to the more intimate ones of my city or home surroundings.

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  21. An extremely informative tutorial video. It’s taken years to realise the mistakes you talked about. Anyone watching this, who is fairly new to landscape photography, will be so grateful. I do like your ‘edge patrol’ tip which makes such a huge improvement to an image. Thank you 🙏🏼

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