Photography can be as easy or as difficult as you choose to make it.
You can choose how much you want to learn, how much you want to push yourself and how far you want to take your craft.
The learning part is easy. In yesterday’s guest post Phil Gould shared five solid photography tips which is just the beginning. But then again, that’s up to you. You can stick with Phil’s advise, which will get you pretty damn far, or you can keep on surfing the web for more info. More detailed descriptions. More technical info. There is always more.
Phil, thanks for sharing your experience on Photo-Africa!
Pushing yourself is also pretty easy. There are a hundred different exercises and fun, creative things you can do to take yourself our of your comfort zone. Why don’t we do it? Exactly for that reason, it takes us out of our comfort zone. Hey, the reality is still that if you keep on doing the same things you will keep on getting the same images.
Too many people never take the time to read, learn or share with others yet they are the first ones to bitch and moan about how difficult photography is. How they don’t understand all the camera settings. How other people’s images are always better.
The bottom line is this…
There will always be a lot of photographers that are better than you and you will always be better than some photographers. How you choose to grow with your photography is up to you . It’s a choice you make. Always shooting on Auto and going for the same shots will never make you take better photographs. Sometimes you have to step out of your comfort zone, make things a little bit difficult in order to grow. And when you get there, do it all over again!
I am sitting in Johannesburg after a long day of running around, shopping and meetings. Up very early in the morning to drive back to Madikwe so time to get to bed.
Had to include at least one image so here goes.
Shot this sometime during last week. The sun had already set but the scene just demanded that I take one more shot. I had to push the ISO to 2000 and use an aperture of f/2.8. Still had to hold pretty still to get the ellie nice and crisp. A lot of people would have packed their cameras away already but if you don’t keep pushing yourself you won’t get the shots!
Anyway, tired now so signing off until Monday. I had quite a few links and other pages I wanted to showcase but will bump this to next week. Some amazing images from a friend in Madikwe, cheetahs in the Kalahari and the Bush Warriors Photo of the Day contest. Check back next week for more.
Have a good weekend and remember… push yourself! 
Gerry
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