Primarily self-taught - and by making many many mistakes. Good news is that Mongo practised so long on the mistake that he has just about perfected it
Self Taught (trial and error)
Photography forum
Internet searches
Books
Videos (online or CD/DVD)
Photography magazines
Learnt from someone (friend/associate)
Formal training (courses online/offline)
Other..specify
Slowly and doing it all wrong the first, make that several times. LOL
I'm a lazy creature when it comes to techknowledgy, so I tend to brain suck others dry. Have the books, need to read and sit infront of Laptop and do.
They call me "Blue" it's a red head thing.
"My Flickr Site"
Canon Bodies - 1DMk2N + 50D - Lenses - 17-35mm F2.8 L - 24-70mm F2.8 L - 70-200mm F2.8 L - 300mm F4 IS L - Sigma 18-50mm F2.8 - Sigma 10-20mm - DJI Mavic Pro Platinum
" I Never get tired of looking at our diverse country, even if its through the lens of someone else".
CC is always appreciated.
dvd's from a pommy mag photo plus and a little from youtube.still not very good
Haven't really learnt yet.
trying to sharpen correctly and use a bit of curves. The only help/instruction has been from this site and its members.
Kathy
Using a Nikon D90 and 18-200mm VR lens
Self taught with some very handy advise from friendly members here on the site.
Definitely self-taught first, then internet searches (mostly of professional retouchers as opposed to photographers who think they know photoshop) and then magazines. Pretty much in that order.
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Nikon Slave... (D90 & D300S)
-- CCs extremely welcome, further editing of my photos is not. Thanks!
mostly self taught - mainly, I looked at other people's pics that I liked, tried to figure out what they did to it, then looked for tutorials on how to do it.
youtube and www.photoshopessentials.com were my best friends! followed by the forums at luminous landscapes, and of course, from this forum particularly about wedding portraiture
Call me Dylan! www.everlookphotography.com | www.everlookphotography.wordpress.com | www.flickr.com/photos/dmtoh
Canon EOS R5, : 16-35mm F4 L, 70-200F4 canon L, 24-70mm 2.8IIcanon L, Sirui tripod + K20D ballhead + RRS ballhead. |Sony A7r2 + Laowa 12mm F2.8, Nisi 15mm F4
Various NiSi systems : Currently using switch filter and predominantly 6 stop ND, 10 stop ND, 3 stop medium GND
Post : Adobe lightroom classic CC : Photoshop CC. Various actions for processing and web export
Still learning and have a long way to go!
Learning mainly from internet searches and sometime video tutorials
Tania
CC always welcome http://www.taniafernandesphotography.com.au/
Canon 5d iii, Canon 7d, 50 f/1.8 II, 85 f/1.8, 70-200 f/2.8 L IS, 100 f/2.8 USM Macro
The little that I DO know is mostly self-taught and picked up from random searches, forums (here is fantastic, ) and the occasional magazine. I get the feeling that I'm barely scraping the tip of a massive ice-berg though, haha. God, I hope it won't be like the titanic :P Lol.
Meg
CC appreciated and welcome!
http://www.facebook.com/Photography.MeganHenry
Canon 7D | Canon 18-55mm & 55-250mm | Canon 100-400mm L | Canon 100mm L Macro |
I voted for trial and error, although I'm largely still in the "trialling and making lots of errors" stage.
Self taught basic stuff. No internet, no computers (hadn't been invented yet). Got a job in a photo studio and spent the next 15 years in TV stills, commercial and fashion photography.
I used to purpose-create my own developers for the type of end result I needed and would be made up from the raw ingredients. It was fun to experiment. I started ti 1961. hmmm. 50 years ago this month.
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Noddy (John)
Canon 5D MKII , 30D, 24-105mm f4L IS USM, 100mm f2.8L Macro, 70-200mm f4L IS USM
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/jgknight1/
The quickest way to make money at photography is to sell your camera - Anonymous
Self taught - and importantly I started by self teaching myself traditional darkroom techniques first, then digital came along in the 1990's, and adopted digital from its birth. Learning literally never ends - which is why I enjoy it so much
Self taught, after thirty years with my own dark room the principles are the same, it`s just easier. (and I don`t come out with a splitting headache)
Simmo
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Pentax K20d,Pentax DA 16-45 ED-AL,Pentax DA L 55-300, Sigma DC18-200,Sigma 150-500
I am mainly self taught but I have to say, being only 3 weeks into a Bach. of Photography I've already learnt more about post processing than all that time, well at least all the behind the scenes workings that inform what we do in post processing.
If anyone wants a good book I can highyl recommend Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers by Martin Evening. It's one of our text books but I wish I found it years ago now.
Canon 5D II
16 - 35mm L II, 24 - 105mm L
http://mcarlotto.wordpress.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelcarlotto
Is still haven't a valid reply. Learnt how to get specific jobs done via books occasionally, more often the interweb
I learnt and am still learning by a number of different methods. I had very basic formal lessons, e.g Levels, Hue/saturation etc. Most of what I have learnt has been from the internet/this forum and reading books, as well as trial and error - not being afraid to give things a go. The undo button can be your best friend!
CAMERA: Nikon D800, Nikon D7000
LENSES: AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8, Tamron SP AF 90mm F/2.8 Macro, Sigma 10 - 20mm F/4 - 5.6, Sigma 150 - 500mm F/5 - 6.3 APO DG OS, Nikkor 18 - 200mm F/3.5 - 5.6 VRII,
Sigma 70 - 200mm f/2.8 APO EX DG OS, Tamron SP 24 - 70mm f/2.8 Di VC USD, Sigma 85mm F/1.4 EX DG, Nikkor AF-S 16-35mm F/4 ED VR, Nikkor AF-S 200-500 f/5..6E ED VR
MY WEBSITES: www.nawimages.com, http://nelliewajzerphotography.smugmug.com/, http://NellieWajzerPhotography.blogspot.com
The video tutorials for Lightroom 3 on the Adobe website (along with trial-and-error).
I really do recommend those videos though.
Panasonic GH2 --- Pana 7-14mm --- Pana 100-300mm --- Pana f1.7/20mm --- Panaleica f2.8/45mm macro --- Pana 14-45mm
Canon G10 when I want to pocket it.
A mixture of methods for me.
Online tutorials, looking at others examples, but primarily self taught.
Matt.