I'm Struggling Here

[wilgk]

It doesn't sound pathetic at all... it sounds very familiar. Striking gold every now and again is good.

and not an arty bone in your body is quite normal anatomically speaking (from the x-ray chick )

[rob marshall]

I'm the "dammit I suck" stage.

I'm at the 'death' stage!

[Harpo]

Yeah, Im there too... Im also struggling with seeing all the amazing photos shown here and thinking... I need a L lens! Took a bunch of photos on a hike of small waterfalls on streams in the woods yesterday... none of them turned out well. I think part of my problem is Im trying hard to master the DSLR and learn to take good pictures with it... then I also learn I need to learn photoshop too to tweak a picture so it pops just right! Sigh... sometimes it feels like I cant win!

[ktuli]

Yeah, Im there too... Im also struggling with seeing all the amazing photos shown here and thinking... I need a L lens! Took a bunch of photos on a hike of small waterfalls on streams in the woods yesterday... none of them turned out well. I think part of my problem is Im trying hard to master the DSLR and learn to take good pictures with it... then I also learn I need to learn photoshop too to tweak a picture so it pops just right! Sigh... sometimes it feels like I cant win!

Hanging out on this site definitely has its "intimidation" factor. Not that anyone here does it on purpose, but I certainly feel way out-classed here. But it is pushing me to get better, and I think it is working already.

You also don't need an L lens, Mike... just patience and attention to detail in the field.

- Bill

[Harpo]

Hanging out on this site definitely has its "intimidation" factor. Not that anyone here does it on purpose, but I certainly feel way out-classed here. But it is pushing me to get better, and I think it is working already.



- Bill

Thats what I love about this site. Photos here are so good, that it makes me want to get to that level. Other photo sites I check too have more people posting pics that are very similar to what Im taking and I don't feel challenged enough. When I started reading the tutorials, whew, they flew over my head! Now that I have been reading stuff here, when I go back to those tutorials, they actually make sense! Guess we who feel flustered, need to keep at it!

[whited3]

... I need a L lens!

It was using this site that convinced me to splash the cash for an L and I've very happy with it. 24-105mm f4 L IS USM.

[PopsPhotos]

When you feel discouraged about taking 100 pictures and not seeing instant glory in them, go talk to a wedding photographer who comes back with 300 photos from which to create a 20 page album. Those photographers have learned what you are just now beginning to realize.

We used to go to the desert/canyons with about 10 rolls of film for each day we planned to shoot. Bill Belknap would shoot well over 250 shots to get 4 or 5 pictures for one of his National Geographics articles.

From what I've seen of your work here, you have nothing to be ashamed, nor, disappointed about. You are doing well and progressing nicely.

Pops

[Colin Southern]

Wear the same thing day after day?

Works for me! I think I only own 1 pair of trousers!

[ilovelucydog]

Works for me! I think I only own 1 pair of trousers!

[rob marshall]

Yeah, Im there too... Im also struggling with seeing all the amazing photos shown here and thinking... I need a L lens! Took a bunch of photos on a hike of small waterfalls on streams in the woods yesterday... none of them turned out well.

Why don't you start a new thread and post several of them. I can probably help (as can others) as I do quite a lot of waterfall shots. Water! the one thing Wales isn't short of. here's one I did earlier. There's a definite technique to getting good waterfall shots.

[rob marshall]

Works for me! I think I only own 1 pair of trousers!

You think you own 1 pair? Do you think you are wearing them now? This could be embarassing - not to say illegal in NZ!

I guess you were the one with the tube map underpants?

[whited3]

This is getting a bit weird (must be a UK thing ) Kites to underpants............................I've missed the segway somehwere............but we Queenslanders ARE simple folk

[rob marshall]

This is getting a bit weird (must be a UK thing ) Kites to underpants............................I've missed the segway somehwere............but we Queenslanders ARE simple folk

Mark

It's OK, you are fairly new here. We have this thing occasionally where we go off at a complete tangent. Nobody ever seems to know why - it just happens. Boredom, I suppose. But as you say, it could be a Brit thing.

[wilgk]

No no no no - yes, us lot down here are serial repeat offenders of tacking the tangent to nowhere path as well.......

[whited3]

Kay, don't encourage them please. Trust me, I work with a bunch of Poms, Scots and Irish who either hate or love each other at any given hour (largely determined by football (soccer for us) scores). They're an unstable lot the Poms (et al)............must be the cold, inbreeding, or some such

No no no no - yes, us lot down here are serial repeat offenders of tacking the tangent to nowhere path as well.......

[Donald]

Kay, don't encourage them please. ... They're an unstable lot the Poms (et al).

"Carruthers - The colonists are becoming restless. Send in a gunboat. And tell William and Kate to get down there on a goodwill visit, to humour them."

[Wirefox]

"Carruthers - The colonists are becoming restless. Send in a gunboat. And tell William and Kate to get down there on a goodwill visit, to humour them."

Terribly sorry Sir but the gunboats will not be ready until 2019 and then we will not have any aircraft to fly off them - well not our own at any rate. We are having a whip round for ammunition and already have donations of a catherine wheel and two roman candles so things are looking up.

Carruthers

You have made me want to read The Riddle of the Sands" again

They're an unstable lot the Poms (et al)............must be the cold, inbreeding, or some such

Nah it's what P C Wren refers to as 'cafard' brought on by hot climates, cheap liquor (Forsters) close confinement (Perth)