I’m new to photography, i own a Canon eos 1300d and i know the basic things, such as how the camera works how aperture and exposure worlds, ISO and stuff

But how do i improve my skills overall?

I have athlete friends who are good and im the school photographer i wanna be able to be good enough to shoot pictures by their side, so atleast i don’t feel left out

Pls give tips and what stuff to buy

  • Warm-Surprise-5467@alien.top
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    1 year ago

    Thanks, I’ll look at sport photography to get a better sense of what it needs to look like

    I am planning on buying a 55-250mm lens since it is sports

    But do i need to edit my photos?

    • vaughanbromfield@alien.top
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      1 year ago

      Depends on what you mean by “edit”. If it was me I’d get a workflow that produces sufficient quality jpegs straight out of the camera, or I’d be aiming for that. If you frequently need to adjust exposure, contrast, colour, sharpness then you need to be improving your technique.

      • Warm-Surprise-5467@alien.top
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        1 year ago

        I shoot in natural mode so when editing i can add exposure, contrast and color.

        I’ve heard someone say before, you can add contrast but can’t remove it

        • vaughanbromfield@alien.top
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          1 year ago

          What I’m suggesting is to set your defaults so the camera jpegs are client-ready without any post editing. Get them off the card and deliver. If you want to make decent money you need to be smart about how much time you spend on a job. Photographing for a couple of hours and editing for a couple more means you have halved your productivity: you could have been out photographing.