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<blockquote data-quote="TerryMiller" data-source="post: 2348050" data-attributes="member: 7900">I&#039;m certainly not a professional, but I still manage to get some great shots every now and then.&nbsp; Other than one &quot;formal class&quot; that I took to better understand the &quot;fancy camera&quot; I have, I&#039;ve never had any photography classes.&nbsp; I adhere to the quote of the famous Ansel Adams, well known landscape photographer.&nbsp; His quote: &quot;There are no rules to good photos.&nbsp; There are just good photos.&quot;I had the good fortune to have a mother that taught herself to paint with oil paint.&nbsp; Watching her and her students over the years, seeing their end results and the &quot;studies&quot; from which they worked, I learned a lot about composure for pictures.&nbsp; I still spend a lot of time on photo sharing websites, specifically <a href="http://www.pbase.com/" target="_blank">Pbase</a>, where there are photographers that are both rank amateurs and professionals.&nbsp; From viewing their photos, one can learn what &quot;makes&quot; a photo and eventually to be able to pick out what &quot;destroys&quot; a photo.One can learn a lot by just looking with an objective eye.&nbsp; Also, if one is looking for sample images taken with specific cameras or lenses, one can use Pbase&#039;s <a href="http://www.pbase.com/cameras" target="_blank">&quot;Cameras&quot;</a> link to find those specific items.&nbsp; Then one can see photos that are taken by &quot;normal&quot; people instead of what one sees on manufacturer&#039;s websites that are taken by professionals only.Using the &quot;Cameras&quot; feature of Pbase is what helped me choose my last three cameras.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TerryMiller, post: 2348050, member: 7900"] [FONT=Georgia][SIZE=3]I'm certainly not a professional, but I still manage to get some great shots every now and then. Other than one "formal class" that I took to better understand the "fancy camera" I have, I've never had any photography classes. I adhere to the quote of the famous Ansel Adams, well known landscape photographer. His quote: "There are no rules to good photos. There are just good photos." I had the good fortune to have a mother that taught herself to paint with oil paint. Watching her and her students over the years, seeing their end results and the "studies" from which they worked, I learned a lot about composure for pictures. I still spend a lot of time on photo sharing websites, specifically [URL="http://www.pbase.com/"]Pbase[/URL], where there are photographers that are both rank amateurs and professionals. From viewing their photos, one can learn what "makes" a photo and eventually to be able to pick out what "destroys" a photo. One can learn a lot by just looking with an objective eye. Also, if one is looking for sample images taken with specific cameras or lenses, one can use Pbase's [URL="http://www.pbase.com/cameras"]"Cameras"[/URL] link to find those specific items. Then one can see photos that are taken by "normal" people instead of what one sees on manufacturer's websites that are taken by professionals only. Using the "Cameras" feature of Pbase is what helped me choose my last three cameras. [/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]

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