Apr 2 • General discussion
Can you try photography without investing a penny to see if you want to invest the time and energy into learning about photography?
Let us not kid ourselves, the art of photography can be an extremely time consuming and expensive endeavour! It can also be a bit daunting if not scary to consider the very real possibility that you might spend thousands of dollars and potentially hundreds of hours of your time just to be frustrated and feel like you make the wrong choice! Is there a way that an individual might try photography to see if they enjoy certain aspects of it enough to then seriously consider what kind of investment they are willing to make to pursue it!
Let me propose a suggestion, a test pilot project for anyone who is thinking about whether or not photography is for them!
All that is required on your part is a smart phone that can take pictures in raw format, a half decent laptop and access to the internet.
The pilot project is simple. Take your smartphone and during a weekend take twenty-five pictures indoors or anything! Furniture, a plant, a stuffed animal.. anything! Then go outdoors and take at least twenty-five pictures of landscape scenery. Then take twenty-five pictures of people, preferably people who are static or barely moving, and finally take twenty-five pictures of anything that is in motion, like a car a person running, a bird in flight!
Once you have done this, offload all of these raw images into a folder.
The download a free raw photo editor like darktable or Rawtherapee and import your photos into the software program! The rest is actually a bit time consuming but I think it will give you a better experience and understanding of what photographers go through!
Choose one photo that you like and is sharp and clear and go to YouTube and search for a video that provides tips on editing a photo!
Follow the instructions in the video and then take a look at the end result! Here is a tip. In order to not overwhelm yourself and get overly frustrated, do the editing in time chunks! No more than a half hour time chunk and no more than six chunks in one day! Review your progress and results and also look at the time and effort as well as what you learned!
If you realize that you want to do it again, photography might be for you!
Notice how I did not talk about any thing technical like the exposure triangle or f-stops etc. This is in part because you used a smartphone and the other reason is that this pilot was a way to test yourself! If you made it to having a finished polished retouched photo that you are proud of..repeat the process with three to five more images and then you will know if you more than likely have the right commitment and capabilities to achieve your dream of learning to be a successful photographer!
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Can you try photography without investing a penny to see if you want to invest the time and energy into learning about photography?
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