Mistakes Every Beginner Photographer Should Avoid
I have recently been working on digitizing all of my film negatives and going through all of them I have gotten to see how I have grown as an artist over the years. A lot of the first rolls I shot were bad, like really bad so I thought I would start a series were I could give some advice how to avoid a lot of the beginner mistakes that I and many other new photographers have made in the past.
The biggest mistake newbies to photography make is taking photos of interesting things instead of interesting scenes. pouring over my old negatives I found plenty of frames will with such things close ups of statues from the park, bird fountains, and wild animals such as ducks and squirrels. These photos were horrible, they weren’t composed well, the animals in the shot were too far away and too small, and they just came across very blah. The reason was because I was too concerned with just finding interesting things to photograph instead of creating well composed scenes to capture.
I think that when you are a beginner you are just so eager to get started taking photos that you just don’t pay enough attention to what you are actually shooting. You have a new camera and you are excited to be out taking photos so you shoot whatever looks interesting in the moment. Out on a walk you see statue in the park so you take a photo of it without ever trying to visualize what the final photo will look like. You see a flower growing so you bend down close to it, zoom in and snap away without putting anymore thought into it.
My advice is to stop and be patient more, don’t just look for interesting objects to shoot. Thinking about what you would like to see a photograph, would you enjoy looking at a photo of a statue? a statue hundreds of people walk by a day and has probably been photographed thousands of times? if the answer is no than skip it. If the answer is yes than start to think how you would like that photograph to look. How you would like it composed, how much depth you want in it, what you want the photograph to say. Your beginning photos are still going to end up being your worst over the long run but doing this will help you get to making better photographers soon.
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