New Years Resolution

DsrtVW

After looking at the best of 2010 mine and other and thinking about my habits.
I found myself looking at 2009 work and this years and thinking about time spent on shots.
2010 was a busy year for work, but even when I found myself taking time to shoot. I would not slow down and take my time to get the shots. More blasting away and moving on.:dunno
After reading something in a magazine article the lightbulb went off.:scratch

I am going to slow down and take more time with the subject and the shot.

This art has many peaks and valleys, like most other things you need to slow down and enjoy it.

Ok I used up my philosiphising allottment for 2011 time to move on.

Anybody else have what they are going to shoot for.

Harryb

I like your point about taking more time with a subject.

I used to go out and try to get captures of as many subjects as possible in a day. Experience has taught me that taking more time with a subject resulted in more interesting captures.

PGM

Well, this is more mundane, but I think I need to pay more attention to shutter speed--like make sure I have enough of it. I'd also love to get a 500mm lens, as the egrets in Bird City, the rookery on Avery Island, are just a little far away for my 400mm. I continue to learn a lot from this forum, by looking at the first rate photos that are posted here.

sapphire73

Interesting thread, Chris! Something I realized this year is that I haven't taken the time to fully understand everything about how the 7D operates so that is one of my goals this year. A silly example is that I knew how to go into the menu to set all kinds of things, but didn't realize until a few months ago that there was a button I could press to the see the camera info near the shutter button when the light isn't good. Duh! So I want to "slow down" and get to know this camera better.

This may seem minor, but it might have been easier to get some sort of shot of the leopards we saw in Kenya one night if I had known about that feature. I had two cameras with me - the 7D and a Canon s90 - that could handle high ISOs pretty well and have the capability for video. But we hadn't brought any kind of flashlights with us for our safari "Sundowners" as we had no idea there might be some photo ops at night. We saw an amazing "leap of leopards" that night but all I have a is a shaky video of the mother and young walking down the road in front of us when I finally got something operating in the right mode.