Advice for getting started

Video 1 Transcript

So my advice of starting a photography business or just starting photography as a hobby is to just get a camera and start shooting. Go out with friends, find out what it is you like to take pictures of. That'll make it so much easier. If you enjoy taking pictures of concerts, go to concerts, take pictures. If you like taking portraits, get somebody to be your model, go out and take a lot of portraits. And then watch videos on YouTube and find out how other people do it. And then just practice, practice, practice. It also helps to shoot with a friend. Get somebody who is a just good friend of yours and they enjoy photography also and go out and shoot. It's just practice, practice, practice. Shoot, shoot, shoot. See what you like and then find out when you get a good shot, figure out how you did it. And then once you figure out how you did it, do it again and again and again. Enjoy.

Video 2 Transcript

Any photographer is going to tell you pick up a camera and start taking pictures. In the world of digital photography, you can only delete the pictures that you took. So take a ton, take thousands, and look through them. Get an eye for seeing the differences between, you know, a bunch of shots you took of the same thing. Get advice online. There's lots of forums of photographers who love to give feedback and help, and I found a lot of help that way. I do landscape photography, so the fun side effect is I get to do a lot of travel when I break out the camera, and those two go together for me. But get outside, start taking pictures, and start learning to be critical about your work and get advice from other people.